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sop

(15,156 posts)
3. Of course Nazis gladly acknowledge the reference to Hitler's "final solution."
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 09:18 AM
Jul 2

When Stephen Miller convinces Trump his bloodthirsty MAGA hordes demand even more cruelty, hispanic immigrants will be rounded up en masse, sent to concentration camps like Alligator Auschwitz and exterminated.

LetMyPeopleVote

(166,210 posts)
6. The new facility is not an extermination camp but this facility clearly meets the definition of a concentration camp
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 02:37 PM
Jul 2

trump and DeathSantis have built a true concentration camp and trump is "joking" about feeding detainees to alligators. This new concentration camp scares me. There are several good comparisons of the Auschwitz camp and living facilities compared to this facility














I am former member of the board of my 2400 family temple and have got to listen a good number of holocaust survivors over the years. trump/DeathSantis' new facility is a concentration camp where it is likely that normal law abiding detainees may end up (over 60% of the ICE detainees have no criminal record).
This facility is not Auschwitz but could be just the beginning




LetMyPeopleVote

(166,210 posts)
7. 'People are going to die': Rain floods 'hurricane proof' Alligator Alcatraz
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 02:45 PM
Jul 2

This is a poorly constructed concentration camp that floods in normal rain. If a hurricane hits this area, the death toll will be really sad.

New video showed a "garden-variety South Florida summer rainstorm" flooding tents and drowning out Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) as he touted the "Alligator Alcatrez" detention facility he claimed was ready to house deportees, according to The Miami Herald.

Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2025-07-02T16:45:23Z

https://www.rawstory.com/alligator-alcatraz-2672557600

New video showed a "garden-variety South Florida summer rainstorm" flooding tents and drowning out Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) as he touted the "Alligator Alcatrez" detention facility he claimed was ready to house deportees, according to The Miami Herald.

Rain began shortly after President Donald Trump finished up his tour of the Everglades facility that the White House claimed needed little security due to pythons and alligators surrounding it, the report said.

"The water seeped into the site — the one that earlier in day the state’s top emergency chief had boasted was ready to withstand the winds of a 'high-end' Category 2 hurricane — and streamed all over electrical cables on the floor," wrote reporters Syra Ortiz Blanes, Ana Ceballos, and Alex Harris.

They quoted Kevin Guthrie, executive director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, as saying, “For those people that don’t think we’re taking that into consideration. This is Florida, by the way. We have a hurricane plan.”

But The Herald reported "that at one point the roof was shaking as the rain pounded down, drowning out Gov. Ron DeSantis’ voice as he spoke to reporters."

Spectrum News reporter Jason Delgado posted video of the flooding, and of DeSantis trying to talk over the cacophony.

Behind the Aegis

(55,509 posts)
8. They aren't the only ones, it seems.
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 03:26 PM
Jul 2

Though both groups are using it for their own devices, neither good.

newdeal2

(3,345 posts)
11. This is an area where words matter
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 04:52 PM
Jul 2

I hate to say it but the general public does not give a damn about “criminals” and “illegals” and think they don’t deserve much more than these cruel conditions.

LetMyPeopleVote

(166,210 posts)
12. Trump's "Alligator Alcatraz" Is Already Flooding
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 06:58 PM
Jul 2

The immigrant detention center is underwater within a day of opening.

The Miami Herald reports: “Rainfall seeped through the edges of the facility as the roofs and walls trembled. Drips leaked from above a door frame. The water spread under poles hoisting the Florida and U.S. flags.”

https://trib.al/esvxjNw

The New Republic (@newrepublic.com) 2025-07-02T20:42:26.914973Z

https://newrepublic.com/post/197552/trump-alligator-alcatraz-flood

The monstrous, recently constructed immigrant detention facility in the Florida Everglades, flippantly dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” literally took on water within a day of President Trump visiting the camp Tuesday to commemorate its planned Wednesday opening.

Florida officials have assured the public that the facility, which will cost an estimated $450 million per year to operate, was built to withstand a Category 2 hurricane (though the Naples Daily News notes that winds of recent hurricanes in the area have significantly exceeded Category 2 levels).

A report by the Miami Herald further casts into doubt official claims about the facility’s durability. According to the Herald, “a garden-variety South Florida summer rainstorm” on Tuesday afternoon—of about an inch-and-a-half of rain—caused flooding in the facility.

The Herald reports: “Rainfall seeped through the edges of the facility as the roofs and walls trembled. Drips leaked from above a door frame. The water spread under poles hoisting the Florida and U.S. flags.”


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