This post was republished with permission from Zero Hedge
America has the best alligators in the world, big beautiful alligators, perfect for stopping dangerous illegal immigrants from escaping detention until they can be processed and deported. At least, Donald Trump and the Department of Homeland Security think so. Others, however, are not so enamored with the idea of ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ being constructed in the middle of Florida’s swamplands.
A legal and environmental firestorm is growing around Florida’s controversial migrant detention center under construction at the remote Dade?Collier airstrip deep in the Everglades. Any illegals trying to escape the facility would have to face hundreds of National Guard soldiers as well as miles upon miles of snake and alligator infested waters before they reached civilization, essentially ensuring they stay in place until they are removed from the US.
Critics call the idea a “cruel spectacle” while proponents are cheering its ingenuity. A variety of activist groups are already swarming sites near the center in protest, some arguing that the facility threatens the environmental balance of the Everglades and others asserting that it violates Miccosukee and Seminole tribal land.
The conflict over the land goes back to 1968, when authorities in Dade County, now known as Miami-Dade County, began building the Big Cypress Jetport on land the Miccosukees used for ceremonial practices. The Dade County Port Authority referred to the project as the “world’s largest airport,” with six runways designed to handle large jets.
The airport became a flashpoint, but in 1969, a coalition if tribesmen and conservationists persuaded Florida Gov. Claude R. Kirk Jr. that the airport would damage the Everglades. He ordered construction be stopped. One runway, approximately 10,000 feet in length, was left behind as a training ground for pilots.
The current battle highlights a common tactic used by progressives – The exploitation of environmental sentiments as a tool to undermine unrelated conservative projects and policies. One lawsuit, filed by Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity, alleges that federal and state agencies have violated laws that, in part, require evaluating potential environmental impacts before such a project can move forward.
Clearly the effort is driven less by environmentalism and more by a desire to thwart deportations of illegals by any means available, but it’s unlikely that the preservation angle will work for activists this time.
Tribal leaders are outraged by the construction of the site, claiming they can trace their rights to the “sacred land” back thousands of years. Of course, they have no rights to the land today, and this is all that really matters.
President Donald Trump and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem are expected to visit the site this week and the center it set to go into operations in July. Florida officials, including Governor Ron DeSantis and AG James Uthmeier, defend the project as an efficient processing center.
Coming soon! pic.twitter.com/v3DCJsrDwV
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) June 28, 2025
“There will be some very dangerous criminal aliens that get processed through here,” DeSantis told FOX News. “But if, for some reason, someone would be able to get out, where are you gonna go? You gonna dodge alligators for 50 miles to try to get to… no, it’s not gonna happen. So this is basically as secure as it gets.” The state says the site will cost about $450 million a year to operate. That cost, according to officials, will be reimbursed by FEMA
At bottom, Alligator Alcatraz is going to open and there’s not much that progressives can do to stop it.
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Can someone ban Tom?
Anyway – alligator Alcatraz is an awesome idea. Bring it on. Starmer take note: whilst there are no alligators, we do have 600+ uninhabited islands, quite a few of them in the Outer Hebrides. Who needs Rwanda when we could just dump them all on one of those islands?
I clicked on this looking for what psycho-TDS-Tom has to say?
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Tom is a mental patient. And if “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest” taught us anything … it’s that mental patients are all just “lovable, misunderstood” people somewhere on some “arbitrary construct” of the mental health spectrum. Gawwd.
And yes, some mental patients are dangerous… such as the 20yo who set a fire to lure Firefighters into a deadly ambush … and we have learned that Law Enforcement had him on their radar. So, perhaps Tom is being surveilled by MI6, Scotland Yard, and whoever in your police services who scour social media for wrongthink. So when ‘Tom’ goes all stabby … at least they’ll tell us that Tom was “known to the police”
Great to hear that ABC is supporting illegal immigrants.
We are learning that it was easy and cheap for Biden-Harris-Mayorkas to throw open our borders and let ten million losers, criminals, and certifiably insane creepsters invade our country … but it is much harder, expensive, and annoying to round them up and toss their asses OUT of the USA.
Because of that, I welcome solutions like Aligator-Alcatraz. Only now … I find myself excited to learn of the FIRST escapee … returned to captivity in pieces … with some pieces missing.
It seems The Trump Admin. learned a thing or two from El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison … and we can replicate that kind of maximum security/discipline.
Obama deported 5.2 MILLION over 8 years… where’s the outrage?
Oh… and Obama doubled the Nat’l debt from $10mil to $20 mil. No blow back… all good, because he’s a (half) bLACK man.
Nahhhh … Obama’s shitshow was ignored because: The “Choom Gang” … Obama’s HS dope smoking club. You see, we all understand that the ganja turns minds to mush … hence that Communist puppet of a POTUS wasn’t anymore responsible for his FAILures than Biden’s Autopen. He wasn’t quiet … all there.
The funniest thing I found about the recent zion don, jisrael and iran psyop was the fact that everyone now thinks that iran and jisrael hate each other and the usa want regime change. This is not actually true. Khemenei was actually kgb trained and has been working with jisrael and the jusa for decades. For instance, very few people know that iran invaded afghanistan alongside the jusa back in 2001. Iran is using the same tactics as the jusa with mass importing drugs which the cia did under regan to destroy the jusa which is working a treat. Iran opened the flood gates of opium to iran and now iran has one of the highest drug addiction stats in the world by proportion of population. Iran shouts death to the jusa and jisrael but in the back ground they are trading oil with jisrael and weapons parts with the jusa having supplied weapons to iran on numerous occasions. Iranian leadership are not actually muslim, they are persians who have been working with the synagogue of satan since they rescued them from babylon and alot of the leadership have jewish roots. The biggest concentration of jews outside israel is in iran and the second largest number of gender reassignments in the world goes to iran. Iran also supported the over through of sadam and they filled the power vacum caused by his demise. Iran are also in syria too. The whole iran situation was a complete psyop and there is no regime change going to happen there. Iran prefer israel to every other arab country. Iran are nwo and their parliment is a pyramid with 33 masonic windows. More divide and conquer by the jesuits, zionists and the shriners.