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Florida Builds ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center for Migrants in Everglades

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by OklahomaGator, Jun 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM.

  1. rivergator

    rivergator Too Hot Mod Moderator VIP Member

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    That’s what I thought. But some were acting like there was much more.
     
  2. FutureGatorMom

    FutureGatorMom Premium Member

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    I see mobile homes on the runway. There are no structures there to contain 3,000 people. More of my tax money being squandered on a culture war while we have outrageous insurance rates, disabled children on waiting lists for years for help, and schools that are overcrowded and under funded.
     
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  3. rivergator

    rivergator Too Hot Mod Moderator VIP Member

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    I assume the mobile homes are for the staff. The prisoners will be in tents, I read. Water in and sewage out will be by truck.

    I agree that there should be better uses for that money.
     
  4. OklahomaGator

    OklahomaGator Jedi Administrator Moderator VIP Member

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    I recall Governor DeSantis saying that all of the tents, trailers, etc., were already owned by the State. I'm sure they had to spend some money to put it up though.
     
  5. Orange_and_Bluke

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    But that is something rather than what you seem to be scratching at?
    The foundation is there and I doubt it’s going to be an environmental problem that some are suggesting.
     
  6. FutureGatorMom

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    And then operate it?? Doesn't sound humane either. It's a freakin hot box for almost 6 months a year. It's nothing but political theater. DuhSantis wants to run again.
     
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  7. OklahomaGator

    OklahomaGator Jedi Administrator Moderator VIP Member

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    The tents are airconditioned
     
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  8. coleg

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    They will be in the first hurricane or tropical storm for certain.
     
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  9. wgbgator

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    So it will only feel like 85 degrees when you are packed in a cage with a few hundred other people
     
  10. dynogator

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    For 2,000 people? That's a lot of trucks. I don't know exactly what the environmental cost will be, that's what the fine scientists are for. I imagine DeSantis will be ordering an exhaustive environmental impact report on the project any day now.
     
  11. wgbgator

    wgbgator Premium Member

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    Indeed, nothing but the best for our concentration camps
     
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