Officials weigh closing Florida’s 'Alligator Alcatraz' detention center
Department of Homeland Security and Florida officials are discussing shutting the Everglades immigrant detention site nicknamed Alligator Alcatraz. The facility, which opened last summer, has cost roughly $1 million a day and has saddled the state with hundreds of millions of dollars in operating expenses. DHS concluded the center is too expensive and ineffective to meet its goals, and Florida has held preliminary talks with the Trump administration about closing the site. Closing the center would force officials to relocate detainees, reshape regional immigration operations, and remove a costly experiment in remote detention that raises questions about detainee welfare and state spending priorities.
"Alligator Alcatraz" has become notorious for its horrific conditions and denying people their right to counsel. It’s past time that it was shut down, but these conditions aren't unique to this one facility. People detained there must not be transferred to other abusive ICE facilities.
eric1990s.bsky.social10Everyone who ran that dump should be arrested and prosecuted.
JuneSongbird3Or disappeared. Didn't they lose 1800 people?
Hope Himars 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🇻🇪3USA CONCENTRATION CAMP and TORTURE CENTER brought to you by BILLIONAIRES and their pet republicans
Escarietson3We can still use it to incarcerate Trump and his inner circle along with the entire republican party and all the DINOs who back-stabbed the nation along with locking up all the 77 million people who voted for this following the liberation of all the wrongfully caged immigrants and citizens.
🇺🇸🇨🇿🇺🇦⚫2It’s where Trump and others from the Regime should be housed.
🔴 BREAKING: Federal and Florida officials are reportedly discussing shutting down “Alligator Alcatraz” after concluding the Everglades detention camp may be too expensive and ineffective to keep running.
Donny Evans8The state has reportedly spent more than $1 million a day on a swamp-bound monument to cruelty, due-process abuse, and human rights allegations. The torture warnings were ignored. The bill apparently was not. Full story: iamdonnyevans.substack.com/i/196658073/...
Jane loves rain (and also Bluesky, ironically)8The right action for the wrong reasons, but I’ll take it.
jfed234.bsky.social5So, not for the inhumane conditions.
Terry Scott5Wasn't this on sacred Indian tribal land to start with? Didn't they tell them it was dangerous and in a floodplain? This placed being shut down is a good thing, better still should have never existed in the first place. Waste of time, money effort, and the private prison people still made money.
bluberrijuice2Yes, but they won't be freeing the people in the concentration camp, will they? Where will they go?
Breaking News: Federal and state officials are said to be in talks to close the “Alligator Alcatraz” immigrant detention center in Florida.
Powerman Friendship16Gotta hurry up and close it to cover up the avalanche of crimes and human rights abuses.
giakson.bsky.social11Built it, advertised it and spent millions of “throw away” money. To close and tear down less than a year later with commensurate additional costs. These are the clowns intimidating the Fed Chair with investigations of cost management in their remodeling project?
jamisong.bsky.social7Hundreds of millions of dollars for the pure political theater of cruelty . That’s Republicans for ya
Ali Kae5How soon until we are informed of how many people they have irreparably harmed/maimed/brutalized/starved/killed?
&y4Maybe just mothball it for a few years so we can use it to house administration officials while they await trial.
Antifa H.R. Manager on Blueskee4It was only a matter of time. This entire exercise was purely performative...it was always doomed to failure.
Doug Adair3DeSatin is not pleased having thrown a bunch of his political capital in that swamp in an attempt to curry favor. May all of it continue to slide off of his plate.
The Trump administration is quietly trying to shut down the controversial Florida immigration center known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” a hallmark of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s tenure. 🧵 www.thedailybeast.com/ice-barbie-k...
RoseMarie13Officials at DHS have determined that the detention center in the Everglades—which has been plagued by allegations of human rights abuses—is also too expensive to continue operating, according to The New York Times.
Annabell4Noem still needs to explain why she delayed (for 3 days) sending FEMA Search and Rescue to Camp Mystic. 27 girls died in the flood waters. Some may have been saved if Noem had done her job.
scipionow.bsky.social3When the truth comes out, America will be compared to Nazi death camps except these were built for profit. Traded on the big board. Of course once gassed, Nazi's captured the teeth, melted them down into gold bars and stored them away.
Joe Mama2I hope to god this actually happens.
