1st deportation flight from Alligator Alcatraz
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Kristi Noem, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, said in an announcement that spinoff facilities are currently underway.
What they’re trying to do, at the end of the day, is pretend like this facility is not governed by federal law,” said one attorney.
Dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” the massive tent detention complex built deep in the Florida Everglades can hold 3,000 and could be the template for other facilities in other states.
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Inside ‘Alligator Alcatraz’: What Lawmakers Really Saw—and Why It Matters Now
Can a single facility be an “clean, air-conditioned, and well-kept” center and, at the same time, an “internment camp” with “vile conditions”? That is the paradox at the heart of Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz,
T-shirts are now being sold to celebrate "Alligator Alcatraz," a Florida attraction where migrants are placed in cages, surrounded by alligators, and publicly taunted in the name of entertainment. What may seem like a political stunt or lighthearted tourism has quickly become a disturbing reflection of how easily we dehumanize others.