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no_hypocrisy

(52,404 posts)
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 05:24 AM Jul 2

If/When there's a hurricane, the detainees housed at Alligator Auschwitz will

Last edited Wed Jul 2, 2025, 04:09 PM - Edit history (1)

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.

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If/When there's a hurricane, the detainees housed at Alligator Auschwitz will (Original Post) no_hypocrisy Jul 2 OP
They just don't care if people die Haggard Celine Jul 2 #1
I have been thinking about this. rzemanfl Jul 2 #2
It is said Werner von Braun's missile plants killed more people than the actual missiles. Girard442 Jul 2 #3
Dems need to call this out for what it is Johnny2X2X Jul 2 #4
'People are going to die': Rain floods 'hurricane proof' Alligator Alcatraz LetMyPeopleVote Jul 2 #5
Trump's "Alligator Alcatraz" Is Already Flooding LetMyPeopleVote Jul 2 #6
Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport is an hour drive from downtown Miami maxsolomon Jul 2 #7

Haggard Celine

(17,338 posts)
1. They just don't care if people die
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 05:37 AM
Jul 2

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)
2. I have been thinking about this.
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 06:11 AM
Jul 2

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."

Johnny2X2X

(23,110 posts)
4. Dems need to call this out for what it is
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 08:52 AM
Jul 2

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

(166,979 posts)
5. 'People are going to die': Rain floods 'hurricane proof' Alligator Alcatraz
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 02:59 PM
Jul 2

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

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.

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 state’s 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 don’t think we’re 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.

LetMyPeopleVote

(166,979 posts)
6. Trump's "Alligator Alcatraz" Is Already Flooding
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 06:57 PM
Jul 2

The immigrant detention center is underwater within a day of opening.

The Miami 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.”

https://trib.al/esvxjNw

The New Republic (@newrepublic.com) 2025-07-02T20:42:26.914973Z

https://newrepublic.com/post/197552/trump-alligator-alcatraz-flood

The monstrous, recently constructed immigrant detention facility in the Florida Everglades, flippantly dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” literally took on water within a day of President Trump visiting the camp Tuesday to commemorate its planned Wednesday opening.

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 facility’s durability. According to the Herald, “a garden-variety South Florida summer rainstorm” on Tuesday afternoon—of about an inch-and-a-half of rain—caused 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.”


maxsolomon

(36,982 posts)
7. Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport is an hour drive from downtown Miami
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 07:06 PM
Jul 2

And an hour fifteen from Naples.

I feel like you're hyperbolizing a bit.

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