🚨The Florida government is going to tear down Everglades wetlands so they can build a tent camp in the swamp to fuel Trump's mass deportation operations — and they’re going to get money from Trump that Congress intended for humanitarian care to recently arrived-migrants.
Our money. The money they’ve diverted for their human trafficking enterprise came from U.S. taxpayers.
please tell me this is not serious
Trumps dream come true
Outrageous. 😡
Perfect. The next time a major hurricane hits Florida, there won’t be any FEMA recovery money, but, hey they’ll have a gulag in a swamp.
He’s such a dumbass. As a Floridian, we’re now in hurricane season, good luck with constructing anything with tents. And we won’t go down without a huge fight over this, not just because of the environmental toll, but for the grossly inhumane conditions proposed.
Remember when THIS was the Trump distraction du jour?
The cost to build the facility+450 million a year to run it. VS leave the law abiding immigrants to work and earn their own living costs and pay taxes. Does this make sense to anyone?
I was born and raised in SE Florida. The idea of a tent city in the Everglades is horrifying: high temps, suffocating humidity, swarms of mosquitoes. People Will Die.
Pretty sure that’s their endgame. Dachau in the Glades. 😢
Cruelty and suffering is the point. They don't care.
My thoughts exactly.
That's their goal.
And Burmese pythons.
Gosh if only there was someone who take them to task for misappropriation of funds....we used to have a congress that did that but @housebudgetdems.bsky.social seemed to have caved.
Unreal Just when you think things couldn't get any worse, somebody says ' Hold my beer'.
Why do they want to hold so many people? Is it just for the government contract that pays millions to hold people? Or are they going to try to use these people to work the same jobs they do now for contracts with businesses (agriculture, construction, service industry) as slave labor? Both?
There are then enough closed federal prisons in the USA. This is waste and fraud.
This is cruelty for the sake of cruelty. These MAGA Republicans are demons.
So let's see if ICE starts conducting more raids in FL, construction sites and farms. So far ICE hasn't been that active in FL. I wonder why? So this facility is going to hold immigrants from Blue states. The El Salvador of the USA.
God Bless America It would be wrong to flood the ICE line with nonsense tips,music, poetry, or anything else that takes away from its mission.
Annnnd the whole thing’s probably gonna be underwater in a few years. Adding to the waste, the outrage, and the tragedy.
Hurricane Season isn't going to "let" this evil monstrosity actually be built/used to functional completion. But I sure hope South Floridians boycott and riot when DHS's ham fisted efforts to make it happen come home to roost.
First time in my life I am rooting for a hurricane.
You people affiliated with this project will all burn in hell. It’s inhumane what you’re about to do.
Wrong on so many levels. These are concentration camps. Mother Earth will see to it that we pay for this one if nothing else does. The Everglades wetlands protect against flooding.
How 1930's Germany we gonna get?
Wow that sounds horrible
Hurricane season??
America is becoming one giant prison camp. How long before he expands the circle of arrests to include opposition members and people who post mean comments about him on social media?
WTH, they are using money legally allocated for FEMA to build these camps?! This is illegal! WTH is CONGRESS?! Do your f**king job and hold this autocrat accountable!
Concentration camp.
Time to open butcher shop down there. Don’t want to feed whole bodies to the alligators.
Good thing they don't have severe weather down there.
Remember this? America needs real Justice 👉 Shoot Migrants’ Legs, Build Alligator Moat: Behind Trump’s Ideas for Border (2019) www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/u...
Immediately came to mind when recent plans were announced.
On stilts?
I have to wonder if they’re going to bother taking the alligators out.
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It's giving Legion of Doom!
To the ICE agents who mugged Mr. Barranco, you are looking at the facility where you will be held pending federal charges as soon as we return the DOJ to mission.
That’s disgusting
[Insert Bridge Over the River Kwai "You Will Die" quote here.]
The swamp
This is no bueno.
It's called a "concentration camp".
Bring on the Hurricanes and the massive sink holes.
They can’t find workers for state prisons. Who is going to work out there two hour drive from Miami?
Can y'all get these lunatics off turtle Island? Like let the land heal FFS.
Is a chief goal of mass deportation to artificially inflate failing red state economies through the construction of colossal private prisons? Coupled with voiding due process and expatriating people to random countries, it feels like modern day triangular slave trade in reverse Totally disastrous
Paywalled
I’m guessing all the migrant farm and hospitality workers picked up by ICE will be leased out to work for pennies a day to the worker while the state takes in the fee paid by the migrant’s former employer. See Alabama as a model: apnews.com/article/pris...
Ron DeSantis is so into torture.
😡😡😡 Gross abuse of our Everglades!
America is dead.
Back in the olden days, we called them concentration camps
The only thing (so far) keeping those involved from additionally going full Dickensian Work Houses and Debtor's Prisons, is they consider reading beneath them. Especially literature. Unfortunately, at some point, someone will see Andor...
Pulling from FEMA funds in Florida at the start of hurricane season is … a choice.
Hey, just as long as they deport a Cuban for every Haitian, so we are assured this isn’t shithole country based
He wanted a moat with alligators. Instant alligator moat.
So Florida voters, by electing Trump, will get a an environmentally awful concentration camp, and meanwhile wonder why millions of Brits and other Europeans are cancelling their Disney & beach vacations. Congrats, MAGA. That's the deal you made.
Let's keep that in mind for when we see the Trump administration implode and need to find housing for Trump and his Cabinet members, MAGA members, and sundry other right-wing terrorists currently loosed like a scourge upon the USA.
OMG! I'm going to need something stronger than craft beer! Sigh.
I’m assuming this will have Cool Hand Luke as leading man
Aside from the cruelty of it all, hurricane season is more than likely going to have something to say about it.
Boy, this just keeps getting worse and worse.
Ultimate suffering applied. Then they need workers. FL commerce will die... no white kids will break a sweat.
I remember when Republicans were going crazy over a fictional plan for Obama to build FEMA camps. Every accusation is a fucking admission.
And who will build this facility in the middle of the Everglades?
Not hard to believe. How low can they go? Lowlifes have no depth limit.
Almost certainly Trump is envisioning a moat of alligators, and that's why he wants to do it.
Dementia Does that
So does Psychopathy
Hence why a combo plate is the most dangerous 😳 we warned about since 2015
Probably with a moat around it for the alligators to hang out in. These people like to call themselves followers of Christ. Disgusting
F-word
Everything they propose is about being cruel and inhumane.
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Can we agree to use it for all Maga criminals when this is over? And do it with state charges, not federal so a stupid Republican won’t pardon them.
$450 million a YEAR.
In other words. Destroy the everglades. Without the wetlands it not be able to maintain its ecosystem. Dumb. Pave paradise and put in a parking lot!
Humanitarian care to throwing them in a swamp. Describes the Trump administration perfectly. History will not be kind to any of these people participating in these horrendous actions.
How the hell are we supposed to survive 3.5 years more of this admin? My anxiety meds can only do so much.
Who said he was planning on leaving?
Congress, do your damn job and cut the funds 🙄
Have these folks never been to the GLADES? Do they really think that anybody can be stored there except as cruel and unusual punishment? It’s a beautiful place, but it’s harsh environment.
Efficient: abusing human rights AND destroying the environment and advancing global warming at the same time!
Sounds like a trump trifecta to me, The EPA is being run by ex oil guy who wants to roll back emissions and clean water acts I guess they have private air and water sources?
Mountain Dew more like it
I don't really support this but you've gotta admit, using alligators to deter escape attempts is a stroke of genius.
Florida. The El Salvador in the United States.
Where is Congress??
JFC
FEMA? FFS
The first concentration camps-during the Boer Wars in South Africa-were tent encampments. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
Make it stop - this is horrifying
FUCK FLORIDA!
This is next level cruelty. Only a sociopath comes up with a “plan” like that.
Well, there you have it
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Florida is going to end up as America's Darfur/Ethiopia/Somalia, ie yes third world starvation can happen here.
It seriously never stops getting worse. 😡
Alligator Auschwitz is more like it
It's not built yet. This is a plan, and many plans encounter roadblocks. DHS didn't expect the coordinated resistance they met in L.A.; think about all the moving pieces that would need to fall into place for this to happen. I don't know that we can stop it, but I sure as fuck won't assume we can't.
Stop the madness and use the money in the way it was intended
Florida doesn’t care about the environment. Maybe a hurricane will pass through that land to be worked on and destroy what they build before they can even use it!!!
That's likely part of the scam, endless taxpayer money to rebuild over and over. I wonder who is getting the contract.
People most likely placed by desantis through a shell of a shell non profits lawyers friends daycare business turned construction company.
History will not be kind those participating in this cruelty.
Oh my fucking God
That's the Florida Circle Of Life.
It will sink into the Atlantic in 10 more years.
Absolutely Disgusting
Yeah, that sounds about par for the course for both Trump AND DeSantis. 😑
This is a disaster. Hurricane season is upon us and what happens if they need to be evacuated? We need to protect our Everglades. Provides drinking water for all of south Florida.
What is the hurricane evacuation plan?
Alligators
You knew America was slipping when Florida became the state where things were tried first, before a wider rollout.
Hurricane damage in that state is about to get worse. Specifically flooding. The Everglades provide a buffer for the excess water influx.
Wouldn’t it be ironic if all the corrupt GOP maga ended up at a place like that!
Gross
Floridians do better! Save your state!
So many levels of wrong.
Fuck all of this
Welcome to the Sunshine State. Home to Disney's happiest place on earth. A paradise where space travel comes true, retirees migrate and warm sand beaches host unlimited parties. Ground zero for the MAGA/GOP/Project2025 agenda where free expression of hate is the norm from coast, to coast, to coast.
Where is Skink?
I am just absolutely disgusted by this man. I know he wants us to get tired and distracted, and I’m not going to get tired or distracted, but this is so disturbing and inhumane. It’s absolutely breathtaking.
Dear God : Please send all 2025 hurricanes to the Everglades where this encampment is to be built. Thank you very much. Love, Real Americans.
Devastating loss of precious wetland.
Florida wants to build a Concentration Camp and instead of calling it Auswitz they are naming it Alligator Alley… there fixed the title for you.
Hellscapes like scars on the. Country. Building them so he can abuse people.
Well I guess a gator moat is ... slightly better than Governor Hot Wheels' floating buoy buzz saws. Slightly.
And what about those Burmese pythons?
when florida doesn’t have the money to rebuild after a hurricane remind them of this…FEMA beds to deport dishwashers and maids
When the hurricane hits the tent city and kills people...
We need to stop finding these welfare red states now State taxes I guess and fuck the federal
Some sick people in this world
Oh, this is a no-go! Which idiot is going to allow this? Oh, right, DeSantis. No more money. DHS is already out of money. Cut off where-ever they're stealing the money from for this boondoggle. No more funding. Period.
Wow Florida people don't have a need for FEMA funds because prisons are the priority?¿?????
The human rights abuses are the point.
And Florida Republican Latino Members of Congress won’t object to it in any meaningful way.
It's sharks with lasers only #IRL
So FEMA funds are going to this rather than to helping Americans in the wake of disasters? Cool. I hope everyone who posted lies about Biden’s FEMA not helping North Carolina after the hurricane are going to flood my timeline with this info. Somehow I doubt it though.
Heck, won't let me get to the article w/o the rigamarole of entering email and stuff - are they really going to be "tent camps"? In the Everglades? Any of y'all ever been in the Everglades? Because that's just wrong, I wouldn't leave an animal I liked outside at night in the Everglades or near it.
Im so glad there is a catchy name for it already
Isn't that land protected?
...and the first hurricane will wipe the whole place out....genocide by nature...hmmm
Housing hundreds of family members of those in S Fla that voted for him
Isn’t “concentration” a more apt descriptor than “tent”? Start calling this what it is! Why soft talk it?? People will die here! The conditions in the facilities that already exist are appalling.
Just another postcard from hell
But I thought Obama built a jillion fema camps to round up rethuglicans? Where they at?🫠
The Trump regime (DHS) is illegally impounding funds that Congress approved for FEMA to fund a migrant detention camp that will destroy part of the Everglades. Everything about this decision is infuriating. The Florida state government is complicit.
We the people huh?
WTF is wrong w/Stephen Miller & his band of xenophobic nazis? They can try all they want but it's not going to change the fact that evolution will colorize America's white supremacy. 1st time around Trump separated kids from families & put them in cages..what's next? Gas chambers?
What a bunch of stupid f'ing people
The Everglades is the only ecosystem of its kind on earth.
Exactly. And they are going to destroy it in the name of hate. 😥
"Dadechau"
The whole thing is so grotesque.
I've tried to inform you this is not for migrants , these tents and fences along Texas and florida borders are communist camps for this who disagree and they consider feeble
Really good time of the year to be building a detention center in Florida........NOT.
Horrible! 🖕
Ffs they're just going to keep one upping themselves in ridiculous shit
And once it's built, they'll find other uses for it. Kidnapping and deporting immigrants is only the excuse to build it.
No
U.S. concentration camps are more barbaric than the ones the Germans used.
If the Administration doesn’t use allocated funds as intended isn’t that the same as stealing from CONGRESS?
FEMA money
Just fucking sick!
Oh, your tax dollars for concentration camps.
Alligator Auschwitz
This is horrible. On top of that it's being pushed by the Florida AG who was just found in contempt of court. Where's his punishment?
This entire administration is rotten. To the core. I can only hope that someday as the saying goes, they get what they give.
And they are going to get it built in 18 months? I call bullshit. There’s no way that this deportation clusterfuck is still operating 6 months from now. It takes years to build a prison. Stop talking about this lying bullshit.
I bet new guards can’t wait to work in that swampy hellhole.
