Alligator Alcatraz, Presidency of Donald Trump
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The camp appears designed to inflict suffering on detainees and to allow Florida politicians to exploit migrant pain for political gain.
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What’s Really Happening Inside ‘Alligator Alcatraz’? Lawmakers Demand Answers NowHow did a facility constructed in only eight days come to become the center of a national controversy over human dignity? The Alligator Alcatraz detention camp, deep in the Florida Everglades, has ignited outrage and demands for answers after politicians toured what they called “vile,
The Trump administration’s plan to detain illegal immigrants at a site in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” is popular with Republican voters, but not so much with others.
Some of the objections to the facility are that it's located in an alligator and snake-infested swamp. I've also read that some have complained about the Florida heat. Though any facility in Florida is subject to it being hot. It is Florida. Oh, and it's also air-conditioned.
Trail guide John Kalafarski wears a bug shirt to fend off mosquitoes as he walks a trail in the Everglades near the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz.” Kalafarski and others who live and work in the area think people have a misconception about the Everglades. They call it home. By PHOTO BY AL DIAZ
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Trump’s Alligator Alcatraz mirrors California’s history with immigration, cruelty politics and the lasting impact on voters’ moral considerations.
Fantasizing about Florida alligators eating immigrants is old racism repackaged in a new Alligator Alcatraz detention camp.
At the RNC in Milwaukee last year, I sent an urgent warning about an innocent enough sounding proposal — "Project 2025." It's worse than I imagined.
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A new detention center in the Everglades revives old fears — but without the compassion that once defined Miami’s response to refugees. | Opinion
Protesters lined the streets on Saturday as lawmakers from both sides of the aisle arrived at the immigration detention facility.
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