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struggle4progress

(126,683 posts)
Thu Aug 14, 2025, 02:38 PM Aug 2025

DeSantis announces construction of another circle of hell

By Laura Romero
August 14, 2025, 11:57 AM

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Thursday that his administration is opening a new immigration detention facility dubbed "Deportation Depot."

The announcement of the new facility in north Florida comes one month after the state opened a detention center in the Everglades known as "Alligator Alcatraz" ...

A federal judge last week temporarily halted any further construction on the Alligator Alcatraz facility to prevent possible harm to the sensitive Everglades ecosystem.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/desantis-announces-2nd-immigration-detention-facility-dubbed-deportation/story?id=124649346

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DeSantis announces construction of another circle of hell (Original Post) struggle4progress Aug 2025 OP
inside Alligator Alcatraz: torture struggle4progress Aug 2025 #1
Oh so clever snowybirdie Aug 2025 #2
Republicans are having a lot of fun with these immigrant concentration torture camps. sop Aug 2025 #3
If our government keeps moving in the direction it is Bettie Aug 2025 #4
For every Alligator Auschwitz, there is a DeSantis Dachau. Efilroft Sul Aug 2025 #5

sop

(19,319 posts)
3. Republicans are having a lot of fun with these immigrant concentration torture camps.
Thu Aug 14, 2025, 02:58 PM
Aug 2025

Enjoy yourselves now, motherfuckers...payback's going to be a bitch.

Bettie

(19,878 posts)
4. If our government keeps moving in the direction it is
Thu Aug 14, 2025, 03:00 PM
Aug 2025

we won't have an "immigration" problem, we'll have a "citizens trying to escape this fucking place" problem.

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