Located on an unused airstrip in the middle of the Everglades, Alligator Alcatraz was opened last year, as the Trump administration sought to rapidly grow ICE's detention capacity in order to surge arrests and deportations. Detainees at the makeshift facility were housed in large air conditioned tents, filled with rows of bunk beds and cells formed by chain-link fences.

The administration has cast Alligator Alcatraz as a cost-effective way of housing people accused of being in the U.S. illegally, and argued it could be a model for other immigration detention centers set up by states.

Some officials have also suggested Alligator Alcatraz austere setup and harsh surroundings could be a deterrent against illegal immigration. During a visit last summer, President Trump said, "We're going to teach them how to run away from an alligator if they escape prison."

And former Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem delivered a warning that people in the U.S. illegally who do not "self-deport" from the country "may end up here."

Alligator Alcatraz drew intense criticism and legal pushback from immigration advocates, environmental groups and a local Native American tribe. Critics alleged inhumane conditions, including poor food, nonfunctional toilets and a lack of access to attorneys. The Trump administration has denied that conditions at the detention center were inadequate.

>>1519871
I still cant believe they actually named it that. I thought it was just a nickname or something. No, thats it's actual on paper name in official capacity.

>>1519876
Welcome to the 'Everyone Is Twelve' administration, where everything runs on the fantasies of geriatric manchildren.

>>1519871
Why is anyone concerned about illegals?

>>1519878
>Men can be women if they believe it real hard.
Uh, childish retard bros, are you OK?
Anyway, I would've named it A Pretti Good Detention Center.

>>1519878
No, the name is to appeal to their base, since MIGA faggots are mostly low IQ mouthbreathers

The whole point was giving obscene amount of money to their cronies, and deliberately harming immigrants by knowing they'd have to close the place temporarily so they overfill the already overfilled cells at other locations 'temporarily'

So not childish stupidity, more willful grifting and deliberate cruelty

>>1519879
What the fuck is an "illegal"? You mean immigrants, refugees, or asylum seekers?

>>1519883
Nope, I mean illegals, obviously.

>>1519884
It isn't as obvious as you think it is. Most people don't use Rush Limbaugh buzzwords in 2026.

>>1519887
stupid liggy bitch just associate illegals with browns tranny ligfag

>>1519888
>(buzzword vomiting intensifies)

>>1519887
Except when it comes to their general political views, right left winger?
And illegals means illegal aliens. Alien meaning foreign. Which speaks completely to the problem you're trying to obfuscate with horseshit.

>>1519899
so whats your horseshit obfuscated point?
stop talking in code and just say it, esl shill

>>1519902
Why is anyone concerned about the housing conditions of people who are in the country illegally and in the process of being deported?

>>1519904
>people who are in the country illegally
They're not until after their court date. Innocent until proven guilty is the cornerstone of the US legal system.

I don't have to ask why an esl shill doesn't care about how incarcerated people are treated in the US.

>>1519905
So if you cross the border illegally it's not actually illegal until they proved it?
You can have no passport, they can have the coyote who drove you across the border saying "yeah this guy got into my van in Mexico and got out of my van in Arizona" but he's not in the country illegally?

>>1519909
Thats how innocent until proven guilty works, your English is getting better!

And I know its making your brain hurt thinking through this, but it doesn't really matter. If that wasn't the case then you'd still be in the wrong because we'd be deliberately hurting people that needed to be deported instead of deporting them.

You should look up things that make America great, like due process, and see about how you can incorporate it into your own third world shithole

>>1519911
> innocent until proven guilty works
This only relates to crimes. Detainment and deportation of illegal immigrants is an administrative issue, not a criminal issue.

>>1519912
>>You should look up things that make America great, like due process
Please read the whole post next time. You were doing so well, and now you're backsliding.

Everything Trump touches turns to shit. This has been true for fifty years.

>>1519911
Im pretty sure these things are illegal before they can prove it.
Epstein was innocent until proven guilty and killed himself before the prosecutor's had a chance to convict him in a court of law.
He's eternally innocent by your own standard, because he died before he could get sentenced in a court of law.

>>1519914
You fundamentally don't understand how the United States handles immigration enforcement.

>>1519918
Go back to >>1519914

>>1519921
Nah, but keep seething over it

If you were serious you'd be shouting at your reps for wasting millions housing people that need to deported. Instead you're programmed to pretend that its dems wasting the money instead of right wing money pits like this

>>1519923
>Instead you're programmed to pretend that its dems wasting the money instead of right wing money pits like this
Dems are the ones that invited illegals into the country in the first place, and now they're trying to misinterpret federal law to prevent deportations from happening. Like ceaselessly asserting that due process isn't being followed.
I remember who reallocated Hurricane disaster relief to house migrants during the height of Helene and it wasn't republicans.

>esl schizo babble
every time they can't defend themselves

>>1519923
Do you think Jeffrey Epstein is innocent or guilty? Given what you just said about due process and innocence until guilt is proven

>>1519926
>Dems are the ones that invited illegals into the country in the first place
https://www.bushcenter.org/catalyst/opportunity-road/compassionate-conservatism

>>1519943
schizo shill doesn't run on logic, get out of here
if you're going to shamelessly bump the thread at least answer their question as to why Epstein is guilty while avoiding Trump being just as guilty

>>1519945
I don't know enough about the current status of the Epstein files except to say only 1/5th of the total has been released so far, and it's been redacted to hell. Either way, Epstein is only barely related to Alligator Alcatraz, the topic of this thread.

>>1519943
>article says nothing about illegal immigrants
Biden and Obama were literally flying in 'asylum seekers'.
>inb4 muh christian values
Google what supererogation means.

>>1519948
>Epstein is only barely related to Alligator Alcatraz, the topic of this thread.
esl shill can't defend Alligator Alcatraz though, so all they got is whatabout whatabout whatabout

>>1519950
I'm fine with putting illegals in ICE centers, actually. And I think its funny they were putting them in a place filled with alligators that habitually floods.

>>1519951
>illegals
but they're not

>>1519871
so why aren't we just flooding the facility with alligators and salt water?
they'll clean em right up

>>1519878
>we're ANTI FACIST LOOK AT OUR NAME WE"RE SO SMART WE CAN NEVER BE FACIST OR ON THE WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY
Yeah... I don't think leftists should be bragging about naming conventions. If a cult named themselves justice for blacks, leftists would support them even if they were a gang of violent murderers just look at the karmelo anthony protesters

>>1519952
esl shills hate this fact

>>1519958
What leftists?

>>1519960
If you have to ask its pretty telling anon

>>1519876
But they're not nazis. And they're not concentration camps. Definitely not. Stop fearmongering, leftist.

>>1519962
No cages built by Obama could be a concentration camp

>>1519963
That doesn't count because vote blue no matter who

>>1519964
yeahsure, McCain/Palin '08

>>1519902
Your mother is gay