Congressman Maxwell Frost Blasts Florida and Trump Administration for “Alligator Alcatraz,” Calls Detention Center a Cruel Spectacle
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost (FL-10) issued a statement condemning President Donald Trump’s Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem, for announcing plans to redirect FEMA funds — meant for disaster response and recovery — toward building a tent-based immigrant detention center in the middle of an abandoned airfield in the Everglades. The site, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” would reportedly rely on surrounding alligators as a “cost-saving” security measure.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, a Trump sycophant, proposed the idea, suggesting that the surrounding wildlife could help deter escape and reduce operational costs.
In a statement, Rep. Frost says:
“Donald Trump, his Administration, and his enablers have made one thing brutally clear: they intend to use the power of government to kidnap, brutalize, starve, and harm every single immigrant they can —because they have a deep disdain for immigrants and are using them to scapegoat the serious issues facing working people.
“They would rather us point fingers at immigrants for the housing crisis, violence, lack of healthcare, and high costs that plague our nation rather than blame the inaction of politicians and greedy corporations.
“This was never about public safety. It was never about putting America first.
“They target migrants, rip families apart, and subject people to conditions that amount to physical and psychological torture in facilities that can only be described as hell on Earth. Now, they want to erect tents in the blazing Everglades sun and call it immigration enforcement. They don’t care if people live or die; they only care about cruelty and spectacle.
“I’ve toured these facilities myself – real ones, not the makeshift tents they plan to put up – and even those detention centers contain conditions that are nothing short of human rights abuses. Places where people are forced to eat, sleep, shower, and defecate all in the same room. Places where medical attention is virtually non-existent.
“Anyone who supports this is a disgusting excuse for a human being, let alone a public servant.”
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