Call this Swamp Thing What It Is [View all]

“Alligator Alcatraz” sounds like a video game or thrill ride at an amusement park. It was pitched that way in a music thumping, high energy, reality-TV style video with quick edits of people in handcuffs, military hardware, alligators and tough talk: “People get out, there’s not much waiting for them other than alligators and pythons. Nowhere to go; nowhere to hide.”

But this is anything but a game. It’s an American concentration camp.

This new, pricey prop in Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown is a 5,000 bed migrant detention facility intentionally built in the midst of a swamp in the Florida Everglades filled with alligators, crocodiles, and pythons. What used to be a training airport is now a gulag designed to hold the thousands of people being abducted by masked and heavily armed officers. That includes the moms pulled from their cars, day workers rounded up in Home Depot parking lots, and farm workers seized while picking strawberries.

Ninety-three percent of the people seized by ICE since October 2024 are not violent criminals. They are hardworking people, many of whom are going through the already arduous process to become American citizens. Many of them will wind up here in the middle of a swamp.

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