Sam Stein: This Is the Country They Want
- On Tuesday, Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' detention facility opened after President Donald Trump visited, with Gov. Ron DeSantis attending the grand unveiling.
- First unveiled by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, Alligator Alcatraz was built rapidly to detain the 'worst of the worst' migrants following Trump-led enforcement efforts in the Everglades.
- The facility was rapidly constructed in eight days on an abandoned jetport in the Everglades, with 3,000 beds, a court run by Florida National Guard, and snake enclosures for security.
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Sam Stein: This Is the Country They Want
Republicans are creating, and celebrating, an immigration police state financed by their megabill. Our cities will be militarized, we'll have prison camps, more masked agents, and more dehumanization—like their sicko alligator hats. And the motivation all seems to be so Trump has a win and the Dems don't. But this is Stephen Miller's administration now. Expect net zero migration, less tourism, less international business, and a lower GDP. As we …
Designed To Enact Suffering
Plunging to new lows of "cartoonish cruelty" in our fascist reality show, MAGA perps just voted for our "most deeply immoral piece of legislation," depriving millions of food and health care as their fuehrer celebrated the launch of a scorched-swamp, mosquito-infested concentration camp - "Let's feed people to alligators!" - to detain millions more for overlooking the paperwork in their search for a better life. And there's merch! Fact: "Snakes …
Joy Reid claims Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz detention facility is ‘concentration camp’ for ‘brown people’
Reid said DeSantis "took the [Fox & Friends] hosts on a tour of the concentration camp he is building in Florida in order to round up brown people and throw them in a camp because he doesn’t want them in Florida."
Reid Loses It, Claims DeSantis Is Building a 'Concentration Camp' For 'Brown People'
Former MSNBC host and inflammatory hot take peddler Joy Reid wasn’t very joyful on her Saturday podcast. As Reid tells it, the new ICE detention center, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” will be a “concentration camp” for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to put unwanted “brown people” in because “This is like being in Apartheid South Africa in the 1980s.”
Alligator Auschwitz: Call It What It Really Is
In addition to the pure cruelty, inhumanity, and evil reeking out of the Republican term “Alligator Alcatraz,” one important point has been left out: nobody in that facility will have been tried and found guilty of a crime by a court. Nobody in that...
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