DWS: If this isn’t a monument to waste, fraud, and abuse, I don’t know what is. It’s costing $450 million a year to house these detainees out in the middle of the Everglades. Because there’s no infrastructure out there, they have to truck in every single thing…
Full interview and more from MeidasTouch here: youtu.be/U4IXI3rUuG4
I really believe that THAT is the entire point of building it there in the first place...they WANT to kill off as many of these people as possible because deporting them is harder than they expected. Due process takes time...burying a body is fast and easy!
It was. There was actual thought given to that very kind of evil- you're no different than f nazis. Oh no, they can never open their dmazs pie hole again. Done being the "understanding Dem".. &I tell them that's what they've always gotten wrong about Dems. When the nazi comes out-so does antifa;)🤬
That plus it’s less likely to be in the news or protested.
It’s the same reason the Nazis murdered millions in camps. The republicans Final Solution.
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Where is the Florida department of health? This is a hotbed for malaria, yellow fever and dysentery.
I'm not sure if Florida has a functional health department. Not being glib either.
We don't - our "surgeon general" is a quack. Google Dr. Joseph Ladapo.
Probably not. That money is in somebody's bank account.
You’re right. They probably don’t.
ah. but the cruelty. you can't put a price on the cruelty that conservatives need in order to get turgid.
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$170 Billion for ICE but no money for food for kids, Medicaid, or Cancer Research seems like a crime to me. This is greater than the Russian Military budget. Welcome to the Police States of America.
Nahhhh.... I'm still mad at Debbie over how she did Bernie when she was DNC chair.
Wasteful. Unnecessary. Clear display of this administration’s incompetence.
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Little idiot nazi boy shitler duhsantis donors are making $ on every dollar spent on evil, corrupt, racist, duhsantis concentration camp!
They told us money for FEMA was going to immigrants. It wasn’t. Now they’re using FEMA money to house immigrants.
NOT only is it WASTEFUL spending but these are people who were WORKING for a living, providing VALUABLE services such as harvesting crops, cleaning hotels, mowing yards etc. so by locking them up they're NOT just hurting the immigrants, they're HURTING our Economy & OUR Country!
Many of these immigrants WERE paying TAXES that help support Social Security and Medicare even though they'll never be able to collect it! docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/...
Imprisoning these people DO NOTHING but HARM to them & OUR Country! These are NOT the CRIMINALS Trump SAID he would go after, they're just the EASIEST BROWN people to KIDNAP!🤬
My first thought was: who's going to do the jobs of those detained people? Then the answer seemed obvious: they'll use the detained people as slave labor. bsky.app/profile/gigi...
Well their last thought on that was to make ALL the people on Medicaid DO the WORK! I KNEW having Trump back in the WH would be HORRIBLE, but it's even MORE HORRIBLE than I imagined & this is ONLY the BEGINNING! Things are going to get MUCH, MUCH WORSE the longer he remains in office!
Yes, it's so much more depraved than I imagined. I also naively thought that more Dems would stand up to him.
There are some that have, while others just set back collecting their FAT paychecks waiting to see what happens in mid terms! They NEED to REALIZE the NORMAL way things USED to work is NO LONGER the case, so it's TIME to think OUTSIDE of the box! They NEED to get international Law INVOLVED!
They also need to be meeting with other World leaders and ENLIST them in helping to help BRING DOWN this DICTATORSHIP REGIME BEFORE it gets MUCH WORSE!
All for a photo-op and extended cruelty
Its a grift- that's the whole point.
They'll pay as much of our money as they have to, to be cruel on this scale.
Who cares about the money- what about the PEOPLE this is harming? We have lost our way as a society. Money runs EVERYTHING in this country. It’s evil and sick.
It opened 3 days ago....they don't know the cost yet, but Wasserman needs to degrease that nasty mop on her head....she may think more clearly.
It never was about waste, fraud, or abuse. Stop the Coup!
Plus, if (inevitably) a hurricane strikes, they will have to spend millions more to get the staff out of there. (And the prisoners, too, if they don't think a Reality TV show of them drowning in locked cells will go over well.)
Yep…not wasteful at all is it…
$450M a year is a genuine saving! SMH
This administration is the most incompetent, cruel administration ever.
that's $450 million taxpayer dollars going to filthy rich republican donors. The obscene waste is exactly the trump/GOP goal. They don't view it as a problem at all. republicans never have viewed corporate welfare going to their filthy rich donors as a problem- it's their main objective.
This is cruelty for cruelty sake. www.tiktok.com/@btnewsroom/...
This cruelty should be returned to him someday. I can't wait.
I would posit that this is likely only the first of many to come. Once a dictator builds a concentration camp they can't just stop at one. We all know what happens when it becomes too damn expensive to maintain all the concentration camps, don't we?
Not to mention that most of these people were productive members of the economy. Now we've lost their contributions.
Money for CONCENTRATION CAMPS BUT NOT UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE
The Orange Dictator and the spineless GOP are spending monies they took away from educational and food programs for our children so they can spend $450M/yr to lock up those who were trying to become citizens. Evil personified.
That's why they're calling it Alcatraz. You'll never guess how they had to get supplies to Alcatraz.
It's just a cruelty circus!
Performative politics isn't cheap. Content is king for these evil freaks we are allowing to destroy our country. Supreme court failed. Congress totally abdicated their jobs. I hope to see a party be able to redo our government structure someday. Our previous systems don't protect against this mess.
Plus I heard a reporter in Miami say that because of the flooding when it rains, they are continuously bussing people to the Krome detention center.. Back & forth. They are just spending money like drunken sailors.
It was never meant to be anything other than a monument to how cruel people can be to other people. The cruelty is the point! That and ship them into the Everglades and forget about them.
Why couldn’t that USAID food that they incinerating have been used at ice detention centers?
No way it costs that much.
Call me superficial, but I don't get what she does with her hair and think she should stop doing it right now. White girl Jehri curl is not a good look. All I know about her politically is that she was against regulation of the exploitative payday loan industry because Florida.
Just wait til you find out what it will cost to redo Alcatraz. $$$
Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a big part of why are here. Everytime I see her or hear her I cringe. She’s an awful person. She is a right about Trump, no doubt, but she is a terrible messenger. She represents the Clinton/Cuomo-corporate-wing of the party and she helped cheat us out of a fair primary.
Gee, sounds like a certain prison trump wants to reopen..
WTH!
Waste and fraud gets ignored when it serves Trump’s purposes.
Republican lie.
Trump should end this racist terror right now!
You should ask Wasserman-Schultz what she thinks of the $$$ the U.S. sends to genocide the people of Gaza.
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Money transfer station.....
Ok...ok....we ALL know the cost & idea are outrageous. WHAT ARE THE DEMS ACTUALLY DOING ABOUT IT? All I see/hear is endless blah, blah......no action whatsoever. Here go the Dems down the toilet once again due to talking & no action. Trump is winning despite all & Dems just won't act.
With old man trump at the helm you can bet your life he won’t be saving money, dude went bankrupt 6 times. When this monstrosity of a presidency ends the next president needs to make sure that it’s the uber wealthy pay off the debt because they paid for this mess.
WOW! It's expensive being mean and cruel!!!
It’s all posturing, stunts and grift.
Reminder that Broward county is cutting their free lunch program for students in Aug due to lack of funds 🙃 party of pro life!
Collier County cut all free breakfast and lunch...income based now. But there is money for this bullshit. 🤬
It just opened and they already know that it’s going to cost $450 million a year to run it? Nah,ain’t no fraud going on there! My ass!
That money that they are spending on Alligator Alcatraz should have been used to totally revamp this nation’s immigration system, which would have provided a way for immigrants and their families a path toward citizenship. This is just ridiculous.
If DeathSantis is involved, something isn’t quite right. Skimming Ronny is at it again.
I completely disagree with it, BUT let's acknowledge the REP get things done! They're evil, but they do what they set out to do. DEMs would debate for years or everything, and even then abandon their entire platform/promise if someone/ anyone anywhere didn't 100% agree with it.
Imagine that
Are the federal prisons not capable of housing the people they won’t give due process to?
So it has the same cost issue as alcatraz... go figure. Learning from the past is a lost skill these days.
and truck out the waste
Follow the money
Nazi Germany
Stop calling them ' detaineees' they're VICTIMS of human trafficking/ kidnapping.
It could be worse ... he could spend billion$ to reopen Alcatraz and have to ship in every single thing thing.
www.huffpost.com/entry/emails... Collier County finally responds to Alligator Alcatraz. What an embarrassment...
wait until they have to evacuate them as a hurricane is barreling in. Sooner rather than later please. Lets let mother nature wipe this human embarrassment of the map.
Sadly, for most migrant workers, they are used to those living conditions except they would get paid while now they are just sitting there for no reason.
Well, planning and the GOP aren’t two things that usually appear in the same sentence. Unless it’s for greed, power and the dismantling of your country.
Now they're floating the actual Alcatraz Who's salivating over the contract$ for that?
His monument to Nazi sadism. Sickos, the lot of them.
Alligator Auchwitz.
Imagine how many millions they will spend to get the original Alcatraz prison back into operation. Donald wants it and they'll do whatever he wants, sparing no expense.
It's stupid, cruel, and unlawful but why confuse these idiots with the facts. How many meals would that money provide for those in need?
It’s costing $450M because they’re siphoning off $350M to line their pockets.
It’s the same reason they closed the real Alcatraz.
Imagine the cost of Alcatraz. Bondi went there today.
It’s a concentration camp.
Nobody does it better, though sometimes I wish they could. Nobody wastes more money, more than all the rest, and what makes ir even worse, it didn't have to be this way, except people got too greedy way too soon.
As I pointed out earlier...the WHOLE point of building this flimsy facility and jamming in as many humans as possible it to get rid of them. The first damn hurricane that goes thru there will kill half of the detainees at least. It's cheaper to bury a body than to deport it.
Levitt announced in a press briefing trump went to the doc and has a condition with his circulation that makes his ankles swell and he bruises easily. I think he is not doing so great
Unbelievable, only it is real. Hello??
Including Water and Sewer. You can't dig wells or build a sewer treatment plant on the Miccosukee reservation in the middle of the Everglades. It's a massive wasteful debacle. Hundreds of lives could be at risk if a storm hits.
I hope ever decent person boycotts FL for their cruelty
Lots of companies profiting off the cruelty, too.
And, they use captured rainwater, treat & dispose waste at the facility, depend on deliveries of food & medicine ; electricity photovoltaic panels on the roof(first casualties in hurricane🥶
That will be cheap compared to what it will cost to house 350 detainee's at Alcatraz in S.F.
Alligator Auschwich - concentration camp! NOT a prison for criminals. Please!
I feel like the SF Alcatraz is where they will build their first execution chambers and ovens.
They don't even know how to get power to it.
Where there’s a will, there’s away. Especially for GOP looking to cause harm and misery. But I’m sure I’m just emotionally overwrought from their constant cruelty and expecting the worst as a result.
Tbh they're doing it in part time make travel harder. Harder for escapees, and harder for folks trying to hold the camp to accountability with visits.
Its a money laundering scheme.
For Trump, it's pocket change. For We the People, it's money to feed children. It seems we have to support Trumps agenda or else...
It’s ok because it’s political theater. Unlimited entertainment budget .
Remember this when they tell you they don't have the money for healthcare and school lunches
It's difficult to think of anything this administration does well. Seriously. 
That's a lot of money for Jim Bob's brother's trucking company, or whatever.
Fuck off Schultzie. You fucked us all in 2016 and there’s no coming back. You don’t care about human cost, only dollars. 🖕💙🖕
So, besides a blatant violation of Constitutional and Human Rights, this monstrosity is costing us money.
Please explain how its a violation of "Constitutional and Human Rights"....its a fucking detention center for criminal illegal aliens and is probably nicer than most prisons. It's ari-conditioned as well....unlike a lot of prisons.
I don't see why they have to be detained at a tremendous cost to the taxpayer. And for how long will they be detained...forever? Why not just send them back to their home countries in the most possible humane manner?🙄
This was a great segment.
Follow the money trail to the MAGA Republicans who are cashing in. Welfare for the rich.
But it's a good way to be cruel to immigrants in a very public way, which is the real point of the exercise.
Alcatraz was closed because it cost too much to maintain a facility that requires everything to be shipped in for the inmates and the workers who lived there with their families. Putting aside the lawlessness and human rights violations, it's a stupid waste of money. But someone's making bank.
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it would be cheaper to pay undocumented people $50,000 to self deport. GOP are morons
And republicans vote to kill people and they are never held accountable. So here we are.
How in the heck are they Feeding these prisoners?
So, exactly like it's namesake in that regard.
millions of dollars in tax-funded jet fuel used to send abducted humans to all corners of the globe a half dozen at a time but no medicaid or usaid
Yes. And look what they're taking away to pay for this shit.
Someone posted this a while back. This must be for the workers... It's also pretty weird that Mexican food trucks would be willing to send drivers in there. If I were a driver, I would bet good money it was a trap. These vendors must be YT.
$450M is all so much more grifty scam. No different that cashing in on the inauguration.
Haven't seen her this vocal since she fucked us all in 2016.
And today they visited the actual Alcatraz to transform it from a tourist attraction that brings in $60 million in profit annually to costing tax payers anywhere from $235M - $370M to upgrade and then $75M to operate each year. This, aside from the abject cruelty.
I thought that was just another of Donald's harebrained schemes they were just trying to forget about because it was even stupider than most of his harebrained schemes.
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I have a feeling they will eventually use that as an excuse to start inflicting even more horrors. Call me paranoid, but these sick pieces of shite are following every Nazi move.
Maybe Senator Grassley could do something about this... He's complained about fraud, waste and abuse so much he surely could have it investigated and a report drawn up. (former US Navy WAVE 67-70) and I worked for DoD 2007-2014. He had a lot to report on back in those days!
LOL I'm a native Iowan and love your sense of humor. Grassley is such a tool.
Name the contractors and vendors so we can , well you knw, send them Christmas Cards
There is a list somewhere circulating on here. I saw it the other day.
If they really resurrect the actual Alcatraz, it will be the exact same thing. It’ll go from an historic moneymaker for the National Park Service to a huge, sucking money pit for the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Aside from being morally indefensible, they’re both really stupid ideas.
Her problem with is the price tag, not the cruel and unusual punishment? Democrats really do love to enable fascism.
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They dont care one bit for humanity, they just want to make money. This is how slave holders think. This is how Russians think. This is a corrupt 3rd world country. The USA is dead.
The USA truly is dead and gone. What’s left is a real mess.
gofund.me/8bfef52d I'm starving and dying from metastatic breast cancer. I have been sex trafficked by the Catholic Church as an infant given to pedophiles. Who are MAGA supporters today. LSU School of Allied Health Sedgwick illegally settled my workers compensation case before 🌀 Ida queer ADA DV 📜❌
When a hurricane hits, will all of those "buildings" stay standing, or is this part of the plan? What an easy way to "get rid" of the people trump doesn't want here. This is all so sickening. UnAmerican bullshit.
1000 staff & temp workers would perish with the prisoners. They must be forced to produce a legit disaster plan. Let’s see the plan for a vacating tents in a swamp & only one road in & out. Personnel, security, safety, equipment, busses, destination ?
A hellish monument to cruel stupidity
Ha! Waste, fraud & abuse should be the GOP motto. Projection much?
Employees are paid $60/hour for 12 hour shifts, for 7 straight days over a three-week period - to finally receive one week off. These jobs are advertised on Indeed's website.
So it wasn’t 450 million to build it it’s $450 million a year for operations? It’s like a great big friggin kennel. Unacceptable!!
Spent from much needed disaster relief funds that are being withheld
I bet Halliburton got the contracts, or KBR. That’s who ran the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In other Florida news, Inter Miami scores $450 million to build a new stadium. The stadium is not $450 million *per year*. www.bizjournals.com/southflorida...
Republican playbook-create a problem, blame govt, and privatize solution. Repeat as needed
And don't forget the proper disposal of sewage. Also gray water, solid waste and recyclables. Wait a minute, Republicans don't give a rats 🐭ass about the environment. Hope they are not dumping some of those materials into our precious Everglades.😓 🕊️🗽 ❤️🇺🇲
And this is EXACTLY the same reason why Alcatraz was shut down. Everything had to arrive by boat and the facility was too expensive to maintain and run. But this time, it’s a money grab… they’re making millions off of a concentration camp
Not to mention the huge sums I suspect we are paying countries to accept immigrants. Your tax dollars at work.
The concentration camp in the Everglades is not just a monument to waste, fraud, and abuse, it's also illegal, unConstitutional, immoral, inhumane, and cruel. I suspect the latter is the point. To whom do we complain about human rights violations?
When do you think they will reciprocate?
Lots of big Republican donors getting sweet contracts for supplies and transportation. Bet the food and medical supplies are pretty meager though. No profit to be made from compassion.
Report is, the food is grossly inadequate, and so is the drinking water. In the Everglades. In high summer. With no air conditioning.
Lots of money for that. None for kids, overseas help, etc.
How about we find out what companies were awarded contracts? Who maintains the "tents"? Can't we see the trucks and see what food company is delivering? Are there gas/oil companies?
Find out and then launch the boycotts and pressure campaigns to cut off their $$$.
They are embezzling the money. This is designed to make it harder to follow the money back to Trump and his buddies! Wtfu we are under a coup and they are trying to bankrupt us I. The process! While they are attacking us, the constitution and immigrants!
all these illegals-problems n costs were directly caused by dems' sale of america for votes/illegals invasion-insanity. we elected pres trump to clean up dems' total mess. dems r trying to save their insanity-agenda n going against our will n mandate. ijr.com/tough-trump-...
Let's waste this money on an absolute albatross but cancel Elmo. Make that make sense.
It's the most stupid thing I've ever witnessed. The money it costs is like throwing it out the fucking window. The Governor of Florida needs to go
the intent is to kill innocent people, illegally detained. Only food and water brought in is for the evil workers. It's sickening. This needs to stop.
Makes me wonder how much we Floridians are paying for this disgrace.
The cost to reopen & run Alcatraz in SF Bay will be astronomical. It was closed because it cost too much to run. Water, food, & supplies had to be transported to Alcatraz. As a tourist destination, it generates lots of money for San Francisco, who Trump despises and wants to suffer economically.
They are all so stupid
I'm betting the owners of the companies given the supply contracts aren't complaining.
I guess dumpster fire and deathsantis are smooching again. I’d like for them to enter the thunderdome against each other. But it’d be one time that no man leave would be great.
😳 What’s that figure? $90k a year per person. Fmr. cost accountant here. 👋
Wait untill that first hurricane strikes: with the tents shredded, will those cages be unlocked? Ot will they just be lifted and fly? And what will then happen to their inmates?
May trump spend his last days on earth as a prisoner in Alligator Auschwitz.
That’s too kind. He deserves scaphism. If you choose to look up the definition, please don’t do it while eating.
Sounds perfect!
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Yes, but someone is making a lot of money out of it. Follow the money trail and identify who the beneficiaries are.
Just did some googling. I was right. Ricky Caplin, private equity investor, donor to Ron DeSantis, got the Alligator Alcatraz contract. Put one of his staff (Matt Fenner) in charge of the "company." jaxtoday.org/2025/07/17/j...
Someone is making money..it’s all about making money and being cruel.
$450 million a year, I’m sure the detainees were not “milking” the U.S. government $450 million in free benefits
How would they milk the government for that much money! The $450 includes all the kickbacks to the GOP.
I saw this interview. The conditions are horrific. How humans are punished by power who deem necessary is beyond belief . This is when I hope there is a hell - so that I know Trump will be punished. He seems untouchable otherwise.. May he rot in
Much of that $450 is getting kicked back to the GOP!
But they owned the libs, and you can’t put a price tag on that! I’d call this Administration a clown show, but that would be wildly unfair to clowns.
What is Steven Miller's and Peter Thiel's profit margin from Palantir?
Republicans think only things that don't line their pockets are waste, fraud or abuse.
Wait till they have to bring every single thing by boat to fricken ACTUAL Alcatraz ISLAND
#BidensLegacy
I need her to care more about Gaza
The cruelty is the point. Broiling hot, terrible humidity, terrible overcrowding, swarms of mosquitos gnats and other bloodsuckers, inadequate food, insufficient water, grossly inadequate toileting -- THIS IS NOT WHAT AMERICA DOES! THIS HAS TO STOP!
What about the sewage, waste water, food refuse and general trash.. where does that go?
They waste money for the sole purpose of making people of color miserable. Is this the America we have become?
...and out.
You know they are not trucking everything back out, though. #ecologicaldisaster.
Just wait to see how much using the real Alcatraz will cost
There's a bunch of money to be made in 'prison' related activities. Buildings, staff, food. All of it is a grift for profit especially since they're no-bid contracts.
Yeah, except the prisoners aren’t getting Jack shit from the sound of it. It’s like a great big frigging kennel. If animals were kept in a shelter like that, Humane Society would shut it down!
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Looked at another way, it’s an opportunity to funnel $450 M per year to some cronies
It's a prison racket for the top to profit.
Aside from the middle finger to the Constitution and gratuitous cruelty the MAGAts enjoy, there's the underlying corruption and grift in the construction and upkeep. Disgusting all around.
And someone’s getting a cut
Reopening Alcatraz as a working Prison has similar issues- but even More Pronounced
They're taking away food and healthcare form poverty stricken Americans in order to man their concentration camps. It's unfathomable to me that THIS is where MY tax dollars are going.
Show that video of the Gaza protestor confronting her about the settlers killing a US citizen in the West Bank and how she just ignored the question even though she's a florida rep and the guy that got killed was from Florida. Another AIPAC stooge.
Perhaps melania & Barron should be deported or put in detention? 👇 youtu.be/ZJKXOT3ycTw?...
I hope we can all agree that even if it were incredibly efficient, it would still be grossly fucking shitty.
It's Trump & Republicans friends doing Money Laundering thru those damn-near-concentration camps!! IOW, lining their Republican pockets w/ monies$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$!!
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But somebody is making a ton of money
And truck out every tank full of shit. No sewers, no water. Anywhere else but Florida this concentration camp would have been condemned! Florida the Armpit of America.
I’m sure dem leadership will get right on that strongly worded letter that we all know is coming…
I am so glad you taking up the challenge in a more effective way rather than just bitching about Dem leadership. No doubt we will see you protesting in person? Distributing petitions? Calling your Reps and Senators on a daily basis? Doxxing ICE and the guards? Boycotting the companies involved?
I am.
Detainees? it's Prisoners!
Cruelty is priceless - to borrow an advertising slogan - Disclaimer: slightly modified
Contractors are cashing in on the Trump admin with no oversight
Screw that CUNT
Don't worry the republican NAZIS will soon come to the "FINAL SOLUTION".
WASTE of taxpayer dollars for poorly planned facilities that are too expensive to operate; FRAUD because this has had no impact on crime rates, we are not safer; ABUSE of detainees by denying due process, access to legal representation, decent food, clean water & medical care.
$450,000,000 divided by 3000 detainees = $150,000 each, per year. For tents, in a swamp. If you want to find waste, fraud and abuse ...
Meh! That's today's costs - once they start executing them it's way cheaper! To those who read this - well to those Americans who read this - this is being sarcastic! I don't want people shot - well not the immigrants or the people who voted for Harris!
Even feed for the gators?
They are also paying the “guards” an exorbitant salary..high above minimum wage and it’s all taxpayer funded! Aren’t we smart to hand over our hard earned money for that? 🇺🇸😪
Pushing for more efficient concentration camps isn't the win they think it is
