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US President Donald Trump has been papped touring an immigration detention centre in the Florida Everglades, dubbed ‘Alligator Alcatraz’, which bears an eerie resemblance to the concentration camps of Nazi Germany.
Surrounded by swampland teeming with alligators, crocodiles and pythons, the facility is estimated to cost $US450 million annually and can hold up to 3,000 people. A second centre is set to open soon in Jacksonville, with capacity for an additional 2,000 detainees.
Admiring the rows of beds behind wired cages, Trump grinned at cameras and quipped that he “looked outside and that’s not a place he’d want to go hiking anytime soon” because “there’s a lot of cops in the form of alligators.”
He was joined by fellow ghouls, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Homeland Security Secretary/dog killer Kristi Noem, who were overheard cracking jokes and laughing as they toured the facility.
Built in just eight days, this centre is one of the latest additions to America’s ever-expanding detention empire which now boasts over 200 such facilities, the most of any country in the world.
ICE raids have intensified in recent months, targeting workplaces, farms, universities and private homes. Due to the administration rescinding policies that restricted certain locations, even schools, churches and hospitals are now fair game.
The uptick in ICE raids has prompted many to draw parallels between Trump’s second term and the rise of Nazi Germany, marked by a similar revelry in cruelty as neighbours turned a blind eye while ‘deplorables’ were taken away by officers and disappeared into hidden camps across Europe.
Ironically, this is the same country that now deports people for being ‘antisemitic’, which means just saying anything remotely critical of Israel.
More to come.
