Alligator Alcatraz receives first immigrant detainees Wednesday night

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Miami Herald

Updated July 3, 2025 10:57 AM


The first detainees arrived at Alligator Alcatraz late Wednesday night, even as the immigration detention facility in the Florida Everglades has already faced some operational issues with security and water intrusion. On Wednesday evening, the gates of the facility were bustling with traffic.

Three white vans escorted by sedans drove into the compound. The vans looked like those previously used by immigration authorities to transport migrants, although it’s unclear who was in them. Constructions workers, fencing companies and locksmiths went in and out of the facility ahead of detainees coming in.

Food trucks serving churros, street corn, and empanadas flitted in and out of the facility. The activity signaled active preparations for a site that a day earlier was showcased by President Donald Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis as an operational location.

The site’s name also became official on Wednesday, when two workers slapped a large blue guidepost that said “Alligator Alcatraz” over the old “Dade-Collier Transitional Airport” road sign that led people to the airstrip for years.

Read more: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article309892650.html

[Tadpole Raisin]

1. You can't spell HATRED without RED HAT. nt

[PSPS]

2. Call it what it is (or will become): Alligator Auschwitz

[ificandream]

3. I think the media should use the old name.

Even though they put up the sign with the name on it, the original formal name of the facility is what they should be using. What they're using now is basically a nickname.

[ificandream]

7. I'm sure there are some magas hoping for that. Pretty disgusting.

[Hugin]

4. The final touches...

There’s nothing like freshly painted, “Arbeit macht frei” signs to give even the most impotent Nazi a slight chubby.

[EarthFirst]

5. Food trucks and sno cones...

Someone’s sick fucking twisted mind thought that including these creature comforts with ‘culturally appropriate’ appeal would soften the image in the court of public opinion…

[Hugin]

6. That there is some sick twisted schizophrenic bargaining...

Pleading with them to please not hate him.

[riversedge]

8. Alligator Alcatraz is the face of Trumps USA!!

[travelingthrulife]

9. Concentration camp opening on the eve of our country's 250th birthday.

[Bayard]

10. Cruel and unusual punishment,

And probably only a few have actual criminal background.

Water is already seeping under the tents. No one has determined whether they're going to have AC yet. So, we have freaking Florida, in the middle of summer, on hot tarmac.

Someone asked DeSantis about hurricanes. He said, “Of course they have plans and contingencies for all of that.” But wouldn't name any.

***A plus--If anyone dies, they can just feed them to the gators. No muss, no fuss, no evidence.

[Marthe48]

11. Modeled after Andersonville?

The racists/fascists haven't moved forward since their last try at mass incarceration with inhuman conditions

Are any nations going to intervene in this insanity? Is everyone waiting to see the outcome?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andersonville_Prison

[truthisfreedom]

12. Someone should correct that sign: Alligator Auschwitz

The Crocodile Concentration Camp