There’s always more and it’s always worse. Just when you think the United States couldn’t possibly be any more cruel or unwelcoming to immigrants, some sick freak with too much power comes up with a whole new kind of nightmare.
ICE’s detention facilities for those it snatches off the street are all utterly nightmarish concrete facilities in hot, humid southern states far from prying eyes. But Florida is going one better with the new “Alligator Alcatraz“.
This is Ron DeSantis’ baby, who’s overseen the rapid construction of a detention facility at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in the middle of the Big Cypress National Preserve. 5,000 unfortunate souls will be consigned there, and conditions are inhuman.
You all under stand that this is a Concentration Camp, right?
— Dr. Kevin M. Young (@kevinmyoung) June 28, 2025
RIGHT?! pic.twitter.com/1P4xOlCy1p
As per a report by the Alt National Park Service, this week will see people being detained in tents with no air conditioning and no real shelter while the temperature regularly hits 100°F. The conditions are described as “choking humidity” and the area is plagued by “swarms of mosquitoes”. The environment itself prevents escape, with the surrounding unnavigable swamps teeming with alligators and pythons.
Worse still is that Florida officials appear to have specifically designed this facility to be so unbearable that some immigrants will inevitably try to escape and die in the swamp, with them bragging that it would be time for nature to “do us some favors” by reducing prisoner numbers.
Oh, we’re at the ‘build the camps’ part already?
Coming soon! pic.twitter.com/v3DCJsrDwV
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) June 28, 2025
Make no mistake, this is the dictionary definition of a concentration camp on U.S. soil. Those within are not violent criminals in need of punishment, but ordinary people who were simply trying to make a new life for themselves and their families. There’ll inevitably be those who’ll cheerlead on this barbarism, but remember that you’re chipping away at your humanity and soul by doing so.
After all, normalizing the government treating human beings like this is a dangerous road to follow and while right now you may feel pretty safe in your air-conditioned home, one day it could be you or your family being consigned to a hell on Earth like this. The existence of this camp should shame every American and, when the consequences arrive, we expect to see those who designed it and the guards who work there facing some difficult questions in court.
