The camp was first announced by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, who is DeSantis’ former chief of staff and was manager of the governor’s unsuccessful 2024 presidential campaign, late last month.

In the depths of the Florida Everglades, a place teeming with mosquitoes, swamps, and predatory reptiles, the U.S. government has endorsed what many human rights activists now call the Alligator Alcatraz—a sprawling 39-square-mile detention facility for immigrants surrounded not only by steel fences,

German culture and the German language were virtually erased from American society almost overnight — sauerkraut was rebranded as “Liberty cabbage,” seriously — and as historian Matthew Stibbe writes, the “enemy alien hysteria” of the war years fed right into the Red Scare immediately afterward:

Alligator Alcatraz’ is visual policy aimed to stage terror as a message while making Donald Trump’s authoritarian and fascist politics a material reality.

On Sunday, two men stood in front of Alligator Alcatraz to show support for the detention center. One held a sign that read, “Welcome to Paradise. Don’t feed the animals.” T

This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.