Florida, Alcatraz
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Dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” the massive tent detention complex built deep in the Florida Everglades can hold 3,000 and could be the template for other facilities in other states.
Alligator Alcatraz’ is visual policy aimed to stage terror as a message while making Donald Trump’s authoritarian and fascist politics a material reality.
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Inside ‘Alligator Alcatraz’: What Lawmakers Really Saw—and Why It Matters NowCan a single facility be an “clean, air-conditioned, and well-kept” center and, at the same time, an “internment camp” with “vile conditions”? That is the paradox at the heart of Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz,
The concept, a product of the go-go 1960's, was killed by an unlikely environmental pioneer, President Richard Nixon
The state of Florida has opened a migrant detention center in the Everglades. Its official name is Alligator Alcatraz, a reference to the former maximum security federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay.
Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is racing ahead with construction of a makeshift immigration detention facility at an airstrip in the Everglades over the opposition of Native American leaders who consider the area their sacred ancestral homelands.
The Cartoonish Cruelty of Trump’s Alligator Alcatraz In the Everglades, a “joke” about wildlife serving as cops for migrants is now a barbaric reality.