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The Cartoonish Cruelty of Trump’s Alligator Alcatraz

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An abandoned swamp packed with predators. Generic rock music. A “one-stop shop to carry out President Trump’s mass deportation agenda.”

That’s how Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier introduced “Alligator Alcatraz,” a detention center for migrants that is surrounded by deadly swampland. Hastily built in a matter of days to assist the Trump administration in meeting its deportation goals, the project has already spawned a line of merch, including beer cozies and hats. Immigrant advocates have decried the project as resembling concentration camps; Native communities warn that

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