‘Alligator Alcatraz’: What to know about Florida’s new controversial migrant detention facility

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  1. I can’t with these headlines…

    Like Fox News literally calls LA like the bottomless pits of Hell or New York the scummiest cess pit of immorality or something outrageous and then CNN is like, “we have to be neutral guys, this is the Migrant Relocation Inn in Florida. We don’t want to call it an internment camp because technically it’s meant for illegal immigrants.”

    Like on God, they themselves are calling it Alligator Alcatraz and are selling merch for it as if it’s some theme park.

    This is the worst timeline I swear.

  2. Call it a Gulag

    Its an easier sell, Republicans have an inbuilt ontological defense against fascist claims but not communist claims.

    It also better represents what it is. A holding camp far away from civilization where people are interned there without trial by secret police

    Gulags are also in recent memory

  3. There are 143,300,000 taxpayers in America.

    The Big Beautiful Bill allocates $175,000,000,000 over the next 4 years for detention and expulsion of a politically invented underclass of people, to include sending them inside of cages.

    Doing the math, that works out to $305 of your money every single year being taken out of your paycheck and going to a mass deportation scheme, treating humans as if they are cattle, placing them in small cages, meticulously tracked and shipped to their final destination.

    Every single month, $25 of your money is going to support this. Just like you might spend $25/month for streaming services, now you’re spending $25/month on our capacity to send millions and millions of innocent people inside of cages so they can be shipped to a foreign country.

    This is no longer an abstract thing that might happen. The money has now been earmarked for a mass pogram to prosecute political minorities. It is happening. It has already started to happen. We are building giant cages to lock people up because of where they were born, and every month $25 of your money is going to support its operation.

  4. “Alligator Alcatraz” may echo real racist horrors—white hunters once used [Black babies as bait](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KV2DrDSrIoY) for gators in the Jim Crow South.

    [source](https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/black-babies-used-as-alligator-bait-in-florida-6531453)

    [source](https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/05/11/black-babies-alligator-bait-folklore/)

    [source](https://www.google.com/search?q=Racist+postcards+black+babies+alligator+bait&hl=en&authuser=0&sxsrf=AE3TifNVVWj_MtqeIIKW0oypm8FyWoqOfA:1751466096991&udm=2)

    Even though it isn’t race *theory*, this history is not taught in school.

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