DHS Building Very Own Concentration Camp In Florida, And Yes There Are T-shirts
By: Gary Legum
"The cruelty is the point."
Adam Serwer
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
Maybe capitalism was a mistake.
Gary LegumJun 30, 2025185
The year is 1936. German citizens that the Nazi Party arbitrarily deems criminals or undesirables are being disappeared to Dachau concentration camp, where they are imprisoned in the most inhumane conditions. They do not know how long they will be there, and they have no legal recourse to contest their detention.
Back home, the prisoners' loved ones have no idea where they are. Or if they know, they cannot visit or get in touch in any way. They are terrified of the unknown suffering their loved one is enduring, sure that he will get sick and die, and the Nazis won't even bother to tell them.
Meanwhile, the Nazi Party is so proud of itself that it's selling fucking T-shirts with slogans like "Dachau ain't just an animal you milk!"
Now imagine it is 2025 and the Republicans are building a concentration camp in the middle of the Florida Everglades where they plan to imprison thousands of migrants and foreigners being scooped up by the ICEstapo. And they are so fucking proud of it that the Florida GOP is selling T-shirts and beer koozies with the prison's cutesy appellation "Alligator Alcatraz" stamped on them. Sure, it's an inhumane prison camp, but that is no reason to skip making a little profit off the merchandising!
You can buy these allegedly made in the USA products in the Florida GOP's online store. Maybe pick up a "Gulf of America" coffee mug while you're at it, in case you still owe Dad a Father's Day gift.
The Department of Homeland Security, which is contributing funding for the camp, is also proud of the incredible effort by the state of Florida to dump thousands of people in a remote stretch of the Big Cypress National Preserve in the middle of the Everglades, on the theory that the government can let the alligators in the surrounding swampland do most of the security work, much like San Francisco Bay was supposed to deter escape attempts from Alcatraz. Which, so far as we know, has not yet been reopened as a migrant detention facility.
Over the weekend, DHS let us know how proud:
No word on whether these images are going to be sold on T-shirts, but we will be completely unsurprised if they are. The money Kristi Noem spends on Rolexes and blowouts before photo ops has to come from somewhere!
The camp itself is the result of an executive order signed by Florida's angry pipsqueak of a governor, Ron DeSantis. The governor had signed an executive order during Joe Biden's presidency declaring a state of emergency because of the alleged crisis of undocumented migrants flooding the state, which allows him to sidestep literally every good-government rule in existence.
From the Associated Press:
The orders grant sweeping authority to the state's head of emergency management, Kevin Guthrie, including the power to suspend "any statute, rule, or order" seen as slowing the response to the emergency, and the ability to place select law enforcement personnel from across the state under his "direct command and coordination."
DeSantis has renewed this order every few months and used it to approve the building of Alligator Alcatraz (we swear, we cannot find an official name for it]. Using executive orders has allowed the state to fast-track construction and avoid purchasing laws that would make the awarding of whatever contracts have gone to third parties to build and maintain the camp a transparent process.
This has all been to the chagrin of, in no particular order: Native American tribes that live in the area and for whom this is sacred land; criminal justice and human rights advocates who condemn as "inhumane" this plan to dump thousands of migrants in the middle of an isolated, mosquito-infested swamp; and ecologists and environmentalists who worry about the effects on the Everglades' delicate ecosystem and are mad that the camp is being built with no environmental impact review.
Also, let us not forget: state Democrats angry about the abuses of power DeSantis is relying on for authority to build the camp; the Miami-Dade County government, which saw the state appropriate the county-owned and little-used one-runway Training and Transition Airport as the site of the camp; the Everglades tourism industry, which worries this camp makes the area unwelcoming to hikers and airboat tours; and ordinary humans who are just plain disgusted by the Trump administration's entire migrant detention plans to begin with.
We're guessing the wildlife in the Everglades isn't real thrilled either, but have you ever tried asking a question of a pissed-off twenty-foot Burmese python? They tend to be pretty close-mouthed, except for the time they might take to unhinge their mouths and slowly swallow you.
The fact that the concentration camp is being built on the site of an airport is important, according to DeSantis, because the one runway is large enough to accommodate planes as big as a 747. So the place really becomes a one-stop processing facility. ICE can take off and land its deportation flights there, and activists won't have time to rush to court and get a judge to order any buses carrying those migrants to turn around and return to a holding facility, as has happened in Texas.
The most remarkable part of this, to us, is that NBC News reports this camp was set up in one week. Florida was able to accomplish this so fast because the facility is the same sort set up to house emergency personnel responding to hurricanes, a practice the state's emergency management department has a lot of experience with. Good thing it's not hurricane season or anything, so these resources aren't likely to be needed anytime in the immediate future!
DeSantis gave Fox's Steve Doocy a tour of the camp, where the migrants will be housed in open-air tents. (But don't worry, the tents are air-conditioned!)
Man, DeSantis is proud of himself, he's practically bursting out of his tiny shoes.
The camp will be up and running and receiving its first detainees by this Wednesday. Eventually, the plan is to have as many as 5,000 people being housed here in the open-air tents while Ron DeSantis is back in his air-conditioned governor's mansion in Tallahassee basking in the glow of his own self-importance.
And you know who might visit the camp on Tuesday for its official opening? Oh, you know who! Big babbling dipshit, orange, looks like the Crypt Keeper if the Crypt Keeper had been sitting in the sun for too long without sunscreen. You know the guy. According to DeSantis, Air Force One can land right on that runway from whence all the deportation flights will soon depart.
Environmental groups did file a lawsuit a couple of days ago to try and stop construction of the camp. As of this writing, there is no word on whether a judge is going to step in.
Imagine if the Nazis had sold an Aushchwitz T-shirt silk-screened with the words " Arbeit macht frei" or a Treblinka T-shirt reading, "I said the Fuhrer sucked, and I was here in the blinka an eye!" Somewhere in hell, Hitler is kicking himself for not having this idea.
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Your friendly Kristi Noem office posted this
That's hilarious!
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I think the gaters ought to be wearing MAGA hats
LOL a lot of TikTok's and memes i have seen over the last couple days have them doing just that .
one i saw was a gator pulling itself up on a dock saying , im here to apply for the ICE job.....
lol
I bet he gets the job
Its like that picture posted of the cages , i have to ask myself , is that to keep people in ? or keep out the creeping crawling nasty snappahs in the neighborhood ?
Discount gator cages?
I once saw a cartoon about discount shark cages. It came to mind
LOL, the release of the movie Jaws is 50 years old now , i was 13 when that movie came out , and use to spend some of my summers on the cape, one scene sticks in my mind .
Quint looks at hoopers anti shark cage , looks at hooper and says , cage goes in the water , you go into the cage , in the water with the shark , our shark ?
quint starts singing , farewell and a due to you fair Spanish ladies .....
We're the same age! I spent a week on the New Jersey shore that summer
Jersey Shore
During the scorching heat wave of 1916, a series of fatal shark attacks rattled the New Jersey coast in the United States, claiming four lives. The first victim, 25-year-old Charles Vansant, bled to death after sharks viciously tore the flesh from his thigh while he was swimming in the early evening. Five days later, Charles Bruder, 27, suffered a similar fate when a shark attacked him, severing his legs and tearing into his abdomen as he swam off the Spring Lake beach.
The culmination of attacks occurred six days later on July 12 in Matawan Creek. Lester Stillwell, a 12-year-old local boy, was dragged underwater by a shark while playing in the creek with friends. Stanley Fisher, 24, bravely entered the water to search for Stillwell but became another victim of the shark's aggression, succumbing to his injuries. The mutilated body of the 12-year-old was discovered washed up 150 feet upstream two days later.
This was attributed to a Bull Shark , not a great white .
Bull sharks are know for being able to live in fresh water .
We're getting off topic here but I was watching a show about Bull sharks in the fresh water rivers of Australia and some other places. and they're vicious.
Kristi Noem...
Her new alligator boots?
This issue came across my feed about a week ago due to a local case of a guy who stole a car with a 8 month old in the back in the middle of feb , in sub zero weather and abandoned both the car and baby in an unpopulated area . some one said send the guy to alligator alcatraz . then news of this started showing up .
2 things came to mind , one was the blake shelton country song , old red . the other was the scene of the villans of romancing the stone feeding captive crocadillians , and saying look at those snappers , danny divito looking rather concerned as a short guy .
all i have to say , look at those snappahs ......
Here is a newsflash for the low functioning morons who right this shit, it isn't a concentration camp, it is a detention facility like any other where you house criminals until they receive their due process, if they don't like it they can go home.
Uh, ok.
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I'm just wondering why you posted the wrong word in a sentence where you are calling the author of the seed a moron.
Well John i'm not paid to "right" for a living. so he is a moron, or lacks integrity, probably both.
caught that, too, did ya?
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Oh my, a concentration camp. Who might they be coming for?
These people constantly repeat the history of NAZI Germany but appear to be too stupid to learn the lesson.
Get out now before it's too late. The NAZIs are going to get you. Heed the lessons of that fascist past. Run while you can. Safety is only a border away.
Or book a cruise on the MS St. Louis ... /s
How many people here will actually get that reference?
I "right" with a scalpel.
then you must be very precise in your "righting"
I traded precise for concise.
I did .
Can't fence you in. Is your real name Robert Fletcher?
lol , nope , just well read , especially with useless trivia .
bet no one gets that reference though , i had to go look it up .
decent song though .
Gosh, cruelty is so fun!
Apparently they will live in cages at Alligator Alcatraz.
I hope to god they are not going to send any non violent criminals or non criminals down there.
So you admit that only violent offenders will be detained there.
At least this facility has air conditioning, Biden left them out in the hot sun,
Bill Melugin Shuts Down Criticism of Alligator Alcatraz With ONE Pic From the Biden Administration – Twitchy
It also has clergy for the illegals to talk to. Can anyone tell us what concentration camp now or in the past had those?
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Selling “Alligator Alcatraz” Prison Merchandise Is a Deranged New Low for the GOP
The new migrant detention center is basically an American gulag. But who wants a T-shirt?
By Charles P. Pierce
What better way to mark the 249th birthday of this nation than to celebrate the opening of an open-air concentration camp in the middle of the Everglades? Not merely celebrate it but also turn it into an instant pop-culture phenomenon with T-shirts and ball caps and as complete a lack of moral conscience as exists in all the misplaced pythons in the swamps beyond. What the hell, they're all cold-blooded reptiles.
Later, the president got all butch about his new project. From Florida Phoenix:
Red states, which would not have economies if it weren't for the patient suffering of the blue states they so deride, are now lining up to participate in the construction of an American gulag system. To the surprise of absolutely nobody, Texas jumped to the front of the line. No gators, but lots of scorpions and venomous snakes ready to do their duty—until they all agree to unionize, at which point Governor Greg Abbott will feast on their living flesh. Of course, how can, say, Mississippi and Alabama resist getting in on all this sweet merch cash? From Fox13 in Tampa:
The glee is the thing. The joy that these ghouls derive from the opening of their concentration camp should take the steam out of all the national celebrating that's going on over the weekend. We are not that country anymore. We are the world's largest reptile farm, and T-shirts are on sale
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When was the last time trmp went hiking?
Let's make money off of other's suffering because I have a feeling it won't be the most menacing monsters on the planet that get incarcerated here
From the party that fund raised off of the Sandy hook shootings immediately afterword, this outrage is hysterical.
Alex Jones is not a Democrat...
Obama sent the fundraising letter out, your comment is a failure at deflection.
'after word'
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