Democratic lawmakers denied entry to 'Alligator Alcatraz' immigration jail

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Source: The Guardian

Fri 4 Jul 2025 13.36 EDT
Last modified on Fri 4 Jul 2025 13.38 EDT


A group of Florida lawmakers were denied entry on Thursday into the new Florida-based immigration jail dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” one day after the first immigrant detainees began to arrive.

Five Democratic lawmakers attempted to enter the facility, which was previously toured on Tuesday by White House officials, but were stopped by law enforcement officers from local agencies, according to the state representative Anna Eskamani in an interview with CNN.

“This is a blatant abuse of power and an attempt to conceal human rights violations from the public eye,” the five said in a joint statement. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed that the first detentions at the facility began on Wednesday, but did not respond to questions regarding the number of people detained so far.

The controversial Everglades jail was quickly set up in a partnership between the federal and Florida state governments. Sitting approximately 50 miles (80km) west of Miami, the remote facility is managed by the state but in large part funded the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema).

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/04/florida-democrats-alligator-alcatraz

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1. This is a real problem. They have the legal authority to be at any detention facility, un-announced. Which is the only

way to really see what the fuck is going on. The supreme executive is once again giving the middle finger to the law and the Constitution. This is not normal in any way.

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2. snork

rather than helping ppl in time of disaster fema squanders monies on jails.

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3. Remember this blast from the past?

Donald Trump and the FEMA Camps Crowd


Published Aug 19, 2016 at 10:51 AM EDT | Updated Aug 24, 2016 at 11:15 AM EDT

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Obama's election in 2008 led to an explosion in hate groups spouting such ideas, and as their numbers have swelled some of their beliefs have gone mainstream, stoked by broadcasters like Michael Savage, Alex Jones and Glenn Beck; right-wing filmmakers; and a host of websites featuring screaming headlines such as: "UPDATE: All Armed Americans to Be Detained in FEMA Camps Starting In 2017!??!"

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As the minutes tick down toward the end of Obama's presidency, chatter about martial law and the commander in chief's supposed tyranny ratchets up. It doesn't matter that martial law—replacing civil authority with military authority—has been applied only sparingly in U.S. history. President Abraham Lincoln imposed it during the Civil War; General Andrew Jackson applied it within his encampment in New Orleans during the War of 1812; and local authorities suspended civil law during labor uprisings in 1892, 1914 and 1934. Martial law was also imposed following the San Francisco earthquake in 1906, and after Hurricane Katrina the state of Louisiana imposed a public health emergency that constituted a de facto suspension of civil authority.

But what the paranoiacs envision is something much, much broader, something nationwide—more Germany under Hitler or Cambodia under Pol Pot.

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More obscure purveyors of the FEMA camp and martial law conspiracy theories include the late William Lewis, a filmmaker who produced one of the hit films of the movement, the 90-minute Camp FEMA: American Lockdown, available for viewing on YouTube. Actor Chuck Norris's son, Mike Norris, who lives in Texas, just released a feature film (written by the owner of the Curves exercise franchise, Texas businessman Gary Heavin) called Amerigeddon, in which the American government initiates a power grid failure in order to impose martial law and seize guns.

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The RW GOP CTs against Democrats were actually THEIR intended playbook for future operation.

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4. yeppers .

do u know what these are ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorack#/media/File:Articulated_auto-rack_cars-7.jpg

the idiots would be screaming" fema camps fema camps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorack

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7. Amtrak uses something like that for their Auto-train going from D.C. to FL

But agree and in fact you ALREADY have something like that going on right now -

Deportees are being held in a converted shipping container in Djibouti, ICE says



(converted shipping containers)

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5. It's been raining, so the place probably flooded.

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6. The way things are going,...

they'll be inside there soon enough.

...along with the rest of us.