Critics Controversial Nickname for ICE’s Everglades Detention Facility: ‘Alligator Auschwitz’

'Alligator Alcatraz' inmates swarmed by bugs 'the size of hands'

The makeshift Florida Everglades migrant detention facility known as "Alligator Alcatraz" is already facing horrific problems, reported the Miami Herald on Tuesday — with the detainees bearing the brunt of most of it."While the state says the stories detainees are sharing with the Herald are false, ...

Florida Conference Denounces 'Alligator Alcatraz'

Florida Bishop Tom Berlin and other United Methodist leaders have denounced the construction of an immigration center in the environmentally sensitive Everglades nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz."

‘Alligator Auschwitz’: ICE's Florida Everglades detention facility evokes Holocaust comparisons

(JTA) — President Trump and Florida Gov. Rick DeSantis had a giddy name for the temporary ICE facility they built quickly on an airstrip in the Florida Everglades: “Alligator Alcatraz.” “We’re going to teach them how to run away from an alligator if they escape prison,” Trump boasted July 1 as he toured the detention facility for undocumented migrants, where a forbidding swamp surrounds tents featuring rows of bunk beds behind chain fences. Some…

Critics controversial nickname for ICE’s Everglades detention facility: ‘Alligator Auschwitz’

“Every a**-clown who compares Alligator Alcatraz to Auschwitz clearly has no mental comprehension of how horrible the Holocaust was,” Stuart Rojstaczer, said.

Florida bishop: Alligator Alcatraz ‘not a solution; it’s an evil’

According to a Florida bishop, two Catholic dioceses in the state are struggling to establish pastoral ministry for inmates at the country’s newest immigration detention center — Alligator Alcatraz.President Donald Trump tours the “Alligator Alcatraz” facility. Credit: White House/public domain.Located in the heart of the Florida Everglades, at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, immigration and government officials dubbed the new …

Alligator Alcatraz isn't just a prison. It's a warning.

Image by JamesDeMers from PixabayAlligator Alcatraz Isn’t Just a Prison. It’s a Mirror. And It’s Asking Us: Who Are We, Really?The most dangerous thing about Alligator Alcatraz isn’t the alligators. It’s the message...Thom HartmannJul 02, 2025ShareWhen Louise and I lived in Germany in 1986/87, we visited Dachau with our family. The crematoriums shocked our children, but even more so because this was simply a “detention facility” and not one of H…