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

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  1. gator_fever

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    According to multiple former guards at the AA facility, the mosquitos are eating everyone alive, the porta potties back up, creating a hellacious miasma, and the water supply for showers is sporadic.

    DeSantis insists everything is fine and definitely meets minimum standards of whatever. He must have missed Trump's new plan to hold detainees without bail for months, possibly years, though.

    “We’re not doing this just to let people have food and shelter, although they do get that. All the minimum standards are upheld,” he said. “But the reality is it’s there to be a quick processing center, we have a runway right there. They can just be flown back to their home country.”

    Sure they can, Ron. And cut off those sweet federal dollars? I think not.
     
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    Florida Official Who Gave Dems a Tour of 'Alligator Alcatraz' Exposes Their Attempts to 'Create Controversy' Out of Thin Air

    "In this situation here, yes, there is a sink there," Guthrie added. "There is a toilet there, but as you indicated earlier, you do both of those things. Whether you use a restroom, or you brush your teeth in a restroom."

    When asked about the food, the state administrator called out Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, who reportedly criticized the turkey -- even though it was wrapped up and not visible -- while also taking a shot at former First Lady Michelle Obama's school lunch program.

    “That might be one of my favorites ... It was a ‘gray turkey sandwich,'" Guthrie said. "Well, she was about six feet away from that turkey sandwich box, that was in a wrapper, [so] I don’t know how she could tell it was gray. However, think about it like this, Jesse. Individuals that go to a hospital, individuals who go and get Michelle Obama’s lunches, are getting the exact same thing."
     
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    Again, was I directly responding to a person? No. Thanks for playing...

    I would say what I've said many times, and I guess I can because a poster did direct it right at me, but I'll refrain for now...
     
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    Childish posting from our Homeland Security department? Why do we have homeland security again?
     
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    Making Jussie Smollett proud.
     
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    Not childish at all. A ton of illegal aliens have willfully returned under this.
     
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    Literally the first one was a direct response to me...you really need to learn when to stop digging.
     
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    Remember when the state said they didn't have any kids there? Well that turn now not to be true. Housing a kid with adults is dangerous. Thankfully he was moved after several days
     
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    Unless those ag workers are in a blue state, then it is open season on them too.
     
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    They didn't because of a juvenile meme. One young woman on tikTok decided to "self deport" with her two American born little girls because she was fearful that they would be separated. She is a DACA recipient by the way. So it's easy for you say it's a meme that convinces anyone to leave, when it's the outrageous treatment of good immigrants.
     
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    Good try Sport. Swing and a miss again...
     
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    It's so good to see you back to your playground comments, sport.
     
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    I see you can only reuse other people jokes. Good one Skippy...
     
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    When the jokes are so creative and witty, they deserve to be reused, Skippy Sport.
     
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    Can't fix stupid...
     
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    This illegal should be sent to Gator-traz.

    Illegal Alien Claimed She Was Illegally Kidnapped by ICE - Then the Surveillance Footage Was Located


    The United States District Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California put out a news release Thursday, saying 41-year-old Yuriana Julia Pelaez Calderon of South Los Angeles is charged with both conspiracy and making false statements to federal officers.

    According to an affidavit, Calderon’s attorney held a news conference on June 30, claiming she had been kidnapped by ICE five days earlier in the parking lot of a Jack in the Box in downtown Los Angeles.

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    Agents found her in a shopping mall plaza in Bakersfield — nearly five hours north of San Ysidro and two hours north of Calderon’s home in Los Angeles — on July 5.

    Investigators located surveillance video showing Calderon leaving Jack in the Box in a car. Along with phone records, officials were able to entirely debunk the claim she had been taken by ICE.
     
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