Alligator Alcatraz was built to be cruel. At the opening the Trump

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regime said prisoners would be offered an out before being sent there: if they agreed to leave the country immediately they could skip being incarcerated there. From day one Trump/Noem knew it was cruel and gave themselves an out by giving the prisoners an 'out'. People were outraged but I think less than the Trump regime expected.

Florida’s immigrant detention crisis isn’t a failure—it’s the blueprint. Engineered cruelty. State-sanctioned abuse.

DeSantis turned Florida into a test lab for authoritarianism—and they’re scaling it nationwide.

You won’t believe what they’ve gotten away with:
📖 open.substack.com/pub/demcastu...

— Jennifer C (@thejenniwren.teamlh.social) 2025-08-05T23:09:13.130Z