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die. That is, if they don't die of starvation, dysentery, malaria, communicable disease, lack of hygiene, and "red rats". *
* Red Rats is common parlance for a situation where rats are hoarded together so closely and so tightly that they go insane and attack each other.

Haggard Celine
(17,339 posts)as a result of their actions. Like people who are guilty of being undocumented or just someone who isn't a citizen deserve to die! It's degenerate thinking. And Trump has said that this year FEMA won't be as involved during hurricane season as they usually are. If they aren't, Trump is going to lose a lot of support in the red states along the Gulf of Mexico (you know I had to say it)!
rzemanfl
(30,710 posts)I expect the detainees will be offered slave labor positions in agriculture in exchange for some level of food and housing. If they die in a hurricane they will say they "escaped."
Girard442
(6,724 posts)Johnny2X2X
(23,110 posts)These are concentration camps and they will not be used for only immigrants, this is where Trump intends to put people who loudly disagree with him.
LetMyPeopleVote
(166,992 posts)This is a poorly constructed concentration camp that floods in normal rain. If a hurricane hits this area, the death toll will be really sad.
New video showed a "garden-variety South Florida summer rainstorm" flooding tents and drowning out Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) as he touted the "Alligator Alcatrez" detention facility he claimed was ready to house deportees, according to The Miami Herald.
— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2025-07-02T16:45:23Z
https://www.rawstory.com/alligator-alcatraz-2672557600
Rain began shortly after President Donald Trump finished up his tour of the Everglades facility that the White House claimed needed little security due to pythons and alligators surrounding it, the report said.
"The water seeped into the site the one that earlier in day the states top emergency chief had boasted was ready to withstand the winds of a 'high-end' Category 2 hurricane and streamed all over electrical cables on the floor," wrote reporters Syra Ortiz Blanes, Ana Ceballos, and Alex Harris.
They quoted Kevin Guthrie, executive director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, as saying, For those people that dont think were taking that into consideration. This is Florida, by the way. We have a hurricane plan.
But The Herald reported "that at one point the roof was shaking as the rain pounded down, drowning out Gov. Ron DeSantis voice as he spoke to reporters."
Spectrum News reporter Jason Delgado posted video of the flooding, and of DeSantis trying to talk over the cacophony.
Link to tweet
LetMyPeopleVote
(166,992 posts)The immigrant detention center is underwater within a day of opening.
The Miami Herald reports: âRainfall seeped through the edges of the facility as the roofs and walls trembled. Drips leaked from above a door frame. The water spread under poles hoisting the Florida and U.S. flags.â
— The New Republic (@newrepublic.com) 2025-07-02T20:42:26.914973Z
https://trib.al/esvxjNw
https://newrepublic.com/post/197552/trump-alligator-alcatraz-flood
Florida officials have assured the public that the facility, which will cost an estimated $450 million per year to operate, was built to withstand a Category 2 hurricane (though the Naples Daily News notes that winds of recent hurricanes in the area have significantly exceeded Category 2 levels).
A report by the Miami Herald further casts into doubt official claims about the facilitys durability. According to the Herald, a garden-variety South Florida summer rainstorm on Tuesday afternoonof about an inch-and-a-half of raincaused flooding in the facility.
The Herald reports: Rainfall seeped through the edges of the facility as the roofs and walls trembled. Drips leaked from above a door frame. The water spread under poles hoisting the Florida and U.S. flags.
Link to tweet
maxsolomon
(36,982 posts)And an hour fifteen from Naples.
I feel like you're hyperbolizing a bit.