This weekend, lawmakers got their first look inside “Alligator Alcatraz,” the makeshift immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., called the conditions “disturbing and vile,

I remember this green, and I hate it. I’m standing in a preserved cell on Alcatraz Island, staring at the green paint lining the cell’s lower walls. I’ve been on this tour twice before, once as a child and once as a new parent.

Land in the Everglades once designated to be a jetport, is now being turned into a detention center for migrants and being called Alligator Alcatraz.

President Trump plans to reopen Alcatraz as a federal prison, citing it as a symbol of law and order. The project faces legal and logistical challenges, but conceptual work began six months ago.

Fundraising for Florida Republicans has spiked as the Everglades-based detention facility for undocumented immigrants — which faces a lawsuit — has taken shape.

President Donald Trump has again breached the topic of reactivating Alcatraz as a federal prison, claiming that “conceptual work” is already underway. The

Trump is doubling down on spectacle over substance, cruelty over compassion, and militarization over meaningful reform.

President Trump took to social media to offer an update on his bizarre plans to renovate and reopen the infamous island prison of Alcatraz in San Francisco. | TAG24

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