In at this time’s episode of Nah, Significantly, It’s A Cult, officers in Florida have begun development on a brand new migrant detention facility that appears to double as a gift-wrapped tribute to President Donald Trump and his anti-immigration agenda to make unbridled xenophobia nice once more.
Weeks after Trump declared he’s transferring ahead along with his plan to reopen Alcatraz — regardless of most consultants saying it’s a silly endeavor as a result of there’s no infrastructure for it, it might be a ridiculous sum of money to spend on a jail that hasn’t been operational since 1963, and, after all, America has no scarcity of prisons anyway — Florida officers introduced the state’s personal new facility, “Alligator Alcatraz.”
From CNN:
“Alligator Alcatraz,” as Florida Legal professional Normal James Uthmeier calls it, is being erected on a little-used airstrip within the Everglades, the huge expanse of marshes and swamps that covers a lot of southern Florida and hosts a dizzying array of wildlife, from a whole lot of chicken species to bobcats, panthers, crocodiles and alligators.
“You don’t want to take a position that a lot within the perimeter. If folks get out, there’s not a lot ready for them aside from alligators and pythons,” Uthmeier stated in an announcement video that casts the power as “the one-stop store to hold out President Trump’s mass deportation agenda” and options slow-motion footage of snapping alligators.
Nah, significantly, it’s a cult.
Trump needs Alcatraz; Florida offers him “Alligator Alcatraz.” Trump hates migrants; Florida offers him a visible illustration of how unhealthy they need to feed brown folks to gators and pythons.
In 2019, throughout Trump’s first time period, the New York Occasions reported that in a White Home employees assembly, the president floated the thought of fortifying the US southern border with a moat infested with alligators. Trump later denied he toyed round with the thought of putting in a useful Medieval Occasions safety system on the southern border. Florida officers, who would carry out blood sacrifices to Trump if it have been socially acceptable, didn’t get the memo and determined to honor him with a jail it doesn’t matter if inmates escape from as a result of it’s surrounded by an enormous alligator moat.
Anyway, in addition to the moral and ethical points the power presents, it may also be an environmental menace.
To construct the power, builders are quickly repurposing the Dade-Collier Coaching and Transition Airport, which Uthmeier described as “an previous, just about deserted airport facility proper in the course of the Everglades.”
Yeah — turns on the market’s a motive the airport is “just about deserted.”
Extra from CNN:
Plans to construct the Everglades facility have been met with fierce criticism from environmental advocacy teams just like the Mates of the Everglades, who on Sunday organized a protest towards the detention middle.
In a public letter addressed to Uthmeier and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the group stated the piece of land the place the middle could be constructed is “crucial to the way forward for the Everglades.”
“Don’t open the door to improvement in one in every of America’s most fragile and iconic ecosystems, surrounded by Everglades Nationwide Park and Huge Cypress Nationwide Protect,” the group wrote.
Mates of the Everglades was based to oppose development on the exact same spot in 1969, Eve Samples, the group’s government director, informed CNN affiliate WPTV.
At the moment, the identical piece of land was supposed to accommodate the Everglades Jetport, one in every of the largest, most formidable airport tasks of that point. The plan was deserted after only one runway was constructed, over considerations it might “destroy the South Florida ecosystem,” in response to a 1969 report.
“It actually strikes you as a clueless concept that was off the cuff,” Samples stated of the brand new facility. “It’s actually ironic that the state lawyer common is characterizing this as a largely deserted website. It was deserted as a result of the folks of Florida, together with Mates of the Everglades, rose as much as cease it again in 1969, 1970.”
Predictably, the development of “Alligator Alcatraz” has already drawn a whole lot of protesters to the Everglades.
However regardless of all of the pushback, Uthmeier stated Monday in an interview with pro-MAGA ommentator Benny Johnson that the detention middle ought to be able to host detainees the primary week of July, that the Nationwide Guard might be referred to as in to assist run it, and that development on the power ought to go quick as a result of it will encompass “gentle infrastructure” like heavy-duty tents and trailers.
However don’t fear, of us, Florida’s lawyer common is promising inmates will get “the due course of that every one these courts say they want.”
It’s uh — it’s really the U.S. Structure that claims they want that, however no matter.
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