'Alligator Alcatraz' 2.0: Second migrant detention center planned in Florida Everglades

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Scripps News

Posted 1:55 PM, Jul 06, 2025


Florida’s first migrant detention and deportation facility — dubbed Alligator Alcatraz — has officially opened deep in the Everglades, drawing applause from Republicans and sharp condemnation from Democrats and environmental advocates. The facility opened last Tuesday with a presidential visit and shortly after began receiving detainees.

The temporary facility, with a capacity of up to 3,000 detainees, was fast-tracked into existence just weeks after Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier pitched the idea. He insisted that detainees will be treated fairly and processed swiftly. “We'll make sure people get the necessary due process,” Uthmeier said. “We'll get them in, get them out.”

But that reassurance hasn't quelled growing criticism. Democrats in the Florida Senate, House, and congressional delegation have voiced strong objections, especially over environmental and human rights concerns. “Florida’s River of Grass is no place for a prison,” lawmakers wrote in a joint letter calling on Governor Ron DeSantis to shut the facility down.

“We urge you to immediately reverse course, halt construction activity, and fully withdraw the proposal to establish any detention facility at the Dade-Collier site,” said U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, in the letter. “We further request that you commit to a transparent and science-based environmental review process for any future development plans affecting the Everglades region.”

Read more: https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/immigration/alligator-alcatraz-2-0-second-migrant-detention-center-planned-in-florida-everglades

[littlemissmartypants]

1. Who thinks that the white boot wearing, pudding eating little Hitler cares?

He and his wife are shameless psychopaths. Just what the regime loves.

[CousinIT]

2. 2nd facility:

I suspect these will be popping up all over the country, at least in red states:

” Meanwhile, roughly 400 miles north, Florida is preparing to break ground on a second facility at Camp Blanding, a Florida National Guard base. State Emergency Management Director Kevin Guthrie said construction could begin as soon as the week following the holiday weekend.”

[FarPoint]

3. These camps will not be staffed ......

That area, they don't have enough workers to pick from.... It's near Naples Fla...just down the road, a well to do area.... and finding eligible, willing workers just won't happen....unless they are immigrants.

[snowybirdie]

5. They announced Friday

that 200 or so US Marines from North Carolina were coming there to staff up the place.

[atreides1]

14. Okay then!

From Eagle, Anchor and Globe to SS Lightning Runes...go figure!!!

[FarPoint]

19. Well damn!

It's probably not going to go well with the Marines overall.... Not what they signed up for essentially....

[maxsolomon]

17. It's an hour drive from central Miami. Plenty of people there who might want a good paying job.

"Deep in the Everglades" is subjective.

[BidenRocks]

7. NO!

It is Alligator Auschwitz.

Do not allow cute merch selling nicknames to proliferate.
Call it what it is.
America's Shame!

[BaronChocula]

8. Name was coined by confederate florida AG

The intent was sadism with a smirk. MSM SHOULD know better than to play along and use that name without knowing the facts behind it.

[Jit423]

6. Trump's jobs numbers will be built on jobs building new detention centers across the RED states. Wait for it! nt

[raccoon]

9. Dumbasses are going to build so many they'll drive the gators and Burmese pythons into the subdivisions.

[Timeflyer]

10. Billionaire FL land developers who own the GOP legislature hope to open up every scrap of FL to their bulldozers.

Alligator Auschwitz is the answer to their long-time thoughts and prayers, as well as fabulous political theater and distraction.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

11. Florida tourism will likely plummet...

Because who will want to work for peanuts in Hotels, Restaurants, and Amusement parks, etc?

Florida is home to millions of Immigrants from African countries, Haiti, Cuba, Central America, the Caribbean, etc. Once they are mostly gone, who will be around to do the work?

Then there is Hurricane season to contend with.

[Miguelito Loveless]

12. Let's stop with the "cute" names

These are concentrations camps.

Florida Concentration Camp #1 and #2.

[atreides1]

15. Auschwitz had 3 camps

Auschwitz, or Oświęcim, was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It consisted of Auschwitz I, the main camp (Stammlager) in Oświęcim; Auschwitz II-Birkenau, a concentration and extermination camp with gas chambers, Auschwitz III-Monowitz, a labour camp for the chemical conglomerate IG Farben, and dozens of subcamps. The camps became a major site of the Nazis' Final Solution to the Jewish question.

[Miguelito Loveless]

18. At least the Nazis

had the decency not to sell t-shirts.

[rickford66]

13. Please read my post from yesterday

https://democraticunderground.com/100220465014

[Bayard]

16. Urging and requesting DeSantis to do anything is worth about as much as his white boots

And anyone who thinks this is a temporary facility, raise your hands.