This is one of those times.

Last week, I commented on the current deportation measures being taken by the Trump administration, and specifically focused on the following:

“Additionally, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem anounced this week that the administration will use funds from the gutted Federal Emergency Management Administration [FEMA] to spend on an ‘alligator Alcatraz’ detention center on a remote Everglades airfield.” [William Vaillancourt, Daily Beast, June 26, 2025.]

That one paragraph opened my mind to a lot of questions, one of which — written half in jest, but apparently originating from some deep, dark instinct — was:

“ . . . what are we talking about: solid structures, or some sort of ‘tent city’?”

I particularly noted the location — an airfield in the middle of Florida’s Everglades swampland — and the notorious heat and humidity of the summer season in that part of the country.

As I said, my mention of a “tent city” was an offhand thought . . . not one that I actually considered a serious likelihood. After all, who could be so cruel . . . ?

But today, I found out that, indeed, someone could . . . because that is exactly what is being created in Florida. And Donald Trump has personally toured his newest big beautiful brainchild and given it his gold-plated stamp of approval.

While not the sort of “tent city” — known as “Resurrection City” — that was created on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. in 1968 as part of the Poor People’s Campaign initiated by Martin Luther King, Jr., it is nonetheless reminiscent of the Nazi prisoner-of-war camps of World War II . . . just newer and shinier (for now).

“Alligator Alcatraz,” as it has come to be known, is intended to house 3,000 migrants, whom Trump described as the most “menacing migrants, some of the most vicious people on the planet.” [Bernd Debusmann, Jr. and Ana Faguy, BBC News, July 1, 2025.]

While visiting a medical facility and one air-conditioned housing tent containing cage-like compartments enclosed by chain-link fence, Trump commented:

“We’re surrounded by miles of treacherous swampland and the only way out is, really, deportation,” adding that he “wouldn’t want to run through the Everglades for long” and that anyone attempting to do so would be met by “a lot of cops in the form of alligators.” [Id.]

He forgot to mention the crocodiles, pythons, and a carnivorous subspecies of cougar known as the Florida panther.

The facility will cost an estimated $450 million a year to operate, and it is not the only one being planned. Another is slated to be opened near Jacksonville, Florida, and Trump has indicated that the administration is already working with the governments of several Republican-run states, including Louisiana, to find other “suitable” locations. I assume the Louisiana bayous would be considered suitable for his purposes.

I wonder if he’s also considering Death Valley in the Mojave Desert . . . although California is a blue (Democrat) state.

Environmentalists in Florida have expressed serious concerns about the impact of Alligator Alcatraz on their efforts to restore parts of the Everglades, and a number of endangered species of animals in the region. But none of that seems to faze Trump in his hysterical frenzy to rid the country of immigrants — only a very small percentage of whom can truthfully be considered “the most vicious people on the planet.”

And when — or if — Trump at last fulfills his erotic dream of deporting the last immigrant, what will become of these very expensive camps? Will they be left to rot, further damaging the surrounding environment? Or does he have some other, more nefarious purpose in mind for them?

Whatever the answer, the first outpost in his proposed chain of prison camps is already a reality. Until now, I hadn’t realized that having our very own series of stalags (Nazi POW camps) was part of the dream of “making America great again.”

Sometimes ignorance really is bliss.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
7/1/25