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BumRushDaShow

(157,325 posts)
Sun Jul 6, 2025, 08:14 PM Jul 6

'Alligator Alcatraz' 2.0: Second migrant detention center planned in Florida Everglades

Source: Scripps News

Posted 1:55 PM, Jul 06, 2025


Florida’s first migrant detention and deportation facility — dubbed Alligator Alcatraz — has officially opened deep in the Everglades, drawing applause from Republicans and sharp condemnation from Democrats and environmental advocates. The facility opened last Tuesday with a presidential visit and shortly after began receiving detainees.

The temporary facility, with a capacity of up to 3,000 detainees, was fast-tracked into existence just weeks after Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier pitched the idea. He insisted that detainees will be treated fairly and processed swiftly. “We'll make sure people get the necessary due process,” Uthmeier said. “We'll get them in, get them out.”

But that reassurance hasn't quelled growing criticism. Democrats in the Florida Senate, House, and congressional delegation have voiced strong objections, especially over environmental and human rights concerns. “Florida’s River of Grass is no place for a prison,” lawmakers wrote in a joint letter calling on Governor Ron DeSantis to shut the facility down.

“We urge you to immediately reverse course, halt construction activity, and fully withdraw the proposal to establish any detention facility at the Dade-Collier site,” said U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, in the letter. “We further request that you commit to a transparent and science-based environmental review process for any future development plans affecting the Everglades region.”

Read more: https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/immigration/alligator-alcatraz-2-0-second-migrant-detention-center-planned-in-florida-everglades

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littlemissmartypants

(28,635 posts)
1. Who thinks that the white boot wearing, pudding eating little Hitler cares?
Sun Jul 6, 2025, 08:24 PM
Jul 6

He and his wife are shameless psychopaths. Just what the regime loves.

CousinIT

(11,669 posts)
2. 2nd facility:
Sun Jul 6, 2025, 08:27 PM
Jul 6

I suspect these will be popping up all over the country, at least in red states:

” Meanwhile, roughly 400 miles north, Florida is preparing to break ground on a second facility at Camp Blanding, a Florida National Guard base. State Emergency Management Director Kevin Guthrie said construction could begin as soon as the week following the holiday weekend.”

FarPoint

(14,128 posts)
3. These camps will not be staffed ......
Sun Jul 6, 2025, 08:30 PM
Jul 6

That area, they don't have enough workers to pick from.... It's near Naples Fla...just down the road, a well to do area.... and finding eligible, willing workers just won't happen....unless they are immigrants.

snowybirdie

(6,229 posts)
5. They announced Friday
Sun Jul 6, 2025, 08:51 PM
Jul 6

that 200 or so US Marines from North Carolina were coming there to staff up the place.

FarPoint

(14,128 posts)
19. Well damn!
Mon Jul 7, 2025, 01:57 PM
Jul 7

It's probably not going to go well with the Marines overall.... Not what they signed up for essentially....

maxsolomon

(36,978 posts)
17. It's an hour drive from central Miami. Plenty of people there who might want a good paying job.
Mon Jul 7, 2025, 12:39 PM
Jul 7

"Deep in the Everglades" is subjective.

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BidenRocks

(1,886 posts)
7. NO!
Sun Jul 6, 2025, 09:31 PM
Jul 6

It is Alligator Auschwitz.

Do not allow cute merch selling nicknames to proliferate.
Call it what it is.
America's Shame!

BaronChocula

(3,036 posts)
8. Name was coined by confederate florida AG
Sun Jul 6, 2025, 11:12 PM
Jul 6

The intent was sadism with a smirk. MSM SHOULD know better than to play along and use that name without knowing the facts behind it.

Jit423

(1,568 posts)
6. Trump's jobs numbers will be built on jobs building new detention centers across the RED states. Wait for it! nt
Sun Jul 6, 2025, 09:07 PM
Jul 6

raccoon

(31,965 posts)
9. Dumbasses are going to build so many they'll drive the gators and Burmese pythons into the subdivisions.
Mon Jul 7, 2025, 05:16 AM
Jul 7

Timeflyer

(3,293 posts)
10. Billionaire FL land developers who own the GOP legislature hope to open up every scrap of FL to their bulldozers.
Mon Jul 7, 2025, 09:35 AM
Jul 7

Alligator Auschwitz is the answer to their long-time thoughts and prayers, as well as fabulous political theater and distraction.

ProudMNDemocrat

(19,955 posts)
11. Florida tourism will likely plummet...
Mon Jul 7, 2025, 10:03 AM
Jul 7

Because who will want to work for peanuts in Hotels, Restaurants, and Amusement parks, etc?

Florida is home to millions of Immigrants from African countries, Haiti, Cuba, Central America, the Caribbean, etc. Once they are mostly gone, who will be around to do the work?

Then there is Hurricane season to contend with.

atreides1

(16,799 posts)
15. Auschwitz had 3 camps
Mon Jul 7, 2025, 11:33 AM
Jul 7

Auschwitz, or Oświęcim, was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It consisted of Auschwitz I, the main camp (Stammlager) in Oświęcim; Auschwitz II-Birkenau, a concentration and extermination camp with gas chambers, Auschwitz III-Monowitz, a labour camp for the chemical conglomerate IG Farben, and dozens of subcamps. The camps became a major site of the Nazis' Final Solution to the Jewish question.

Bayard

(26,166 posts)
16. Urging and requesting DeSantis to do anything is worth about as much as his white boots
Mon Jul 7, 2025, 11:58 AM
Jul 7

And anyone who thinks this is a temporary facility, raise your hands.

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