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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. VAg8r1

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    Speaking of "cherry-picking" even though immigrants both legal and illegal are statistically less likely to commit violent crimes than Americans citizens a day doesn't go by without Trump citing a tragic case in which an American very often a young woman has been the victim of a violent crime committed by an undocumented immigrant.
     
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  2. VAg8r1

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    Previously mentioned the probability is that residents of a tent city in the Everglades will not fare well during a hurricane.
     
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  3. coleg

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    None of "those" people have the proper "cards" as dear leader likes to blabber. They are not the right skin tone, they are not rich, and they can't vote for Maga.... so expendables.
     
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  4. VAg8r1

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    The lyrics of Woody Guthrie's 1948 song "Deportee" come to mind. The song is about a plane which crashed transporting deportees back to Mexico who were also considered expendables. An excerpt of Woody's lyrics.
    My father's own father, he waded that river,
    They took all the money he made in his life;
    My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees,
    And they rode the truck till they took down and died.

    Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted,
    Our work contract's out and we have to move on;
    Six hundred miles to that Mexican border,
    They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves.

    We died in your hills, we died in your deserts,
    We died in your valleys and died on your plains.
    We died 'neath your trees and we died in your bushes,
    Both sides of the river, we died just the same.

    The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon,
    A fireball of lightning, and shook all our hills,
    Who are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves?
    The radio says, "They are just deportees"


    Cover by Joan Baez
     
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  5. rivergator

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    Yuk it up with some merch! How cool is that?

     
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  6. vaxcardinal

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    The good news is that with the gutting of the NWS, they won’t see it coming
     
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  7. Woollybooger

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    Florida will be compensated completely for the cost by the Federal Government, so we are just providing a service to the country. If they now do the same at Camp Blanding the same will apply. All good in my opinion!
     
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  8. Woollybooger

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    As I see it all of these people were encouraged to be here, even though it was illegal. Getting rid of them legally is difficult at best, but what most of us voted for. I therefore ignore all of those bleeding hearts that choose to post on here about it. No sympathy from me!
     
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  9. saltydoggator

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    What is the acceptable number of United States citizens, especially young women, that must be subjected to violent crime by illegal aliens before their presence in the Unite States becomes too costly? What is the objective basis to tolerate the sacrifice of a single American life or their well being in exchange for the presence of a person that is illegally in the United States?
     
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  10. FutureGatorMom

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    I am a proactive type of person, not reactive. This is purely reactive. We had a bill that would have made the process more efficient and moved people through from 5-6 years to 18 months. These "illegals" as ya'll like to label them, are students who's visas were revoked, people who have been here for years going through the system like it was presented to them, people who were born here and people who built businesses and worked harder than a lot of Americans. Are there criminals? I'm sure there are, buy you and your ilk have created more of them by moving the goal posts on what qualifies as a criminal.

    It's reactive to just paint with a broad brush because it's easier to do so than to take the time to do real reform of the system. There is no talk about punishing businesses who hired them. You fell for a lie and one day you'll know it. You'll get no sympathy from me
     
  11. wgbgator

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    As a conservative, its brave that you believe young women should only be subjected to violent crime, reproductive control and domination by their fellow Americans.
     
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  12. BLING

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    This admin actively worked to bring home Andrew Tate.

    Their credibility on protecting women has about as much value as the poop my dog just did in the back yard.
     
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