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We need to stop calling it “Alligator Alcatraz”.

I know this sounds like a strange thing to take issue with. After all, it’s connected to a fascist gang of thugs kidnapping American citizens based on the colour of their skin, like the literal Gestapo.

There are so many more things wrong with the existence of ICE than their branding, and yet the mere fact that we keep calling it “Alligator Alcatraz” is part of the problem. Not more so than a bunch of terrorist cunts cosplaying as the Army surplus wing of Mussolini’s Blackshirts, but the more we let them decide the way we talk about them, the more power they have.

The real name of “Alligator Alcatraz” is the South Florida Detention Facility, located in the Big Cypress National Preserve in Ochopee, Florida. Built in June 2025 as the brainchild of the Donald Trump-fellating duo of Florida governor Ron DeSantis and attorney general James Uthmeier, it is the first federally-funded, state-run facility solely for federal immigration detainees, and it will be far from the last. Principally because giving it such a catchy name has humanised the project so much that it’s able to cover up, and in some cases justify, the numerous cases of human rights violations that go on within it.

In 2023, a “State of Emergency” was declared on the subject of immigration. This allowed DeSantis to essentially steal an airfield owned by Collier County, Florida and declare, without any environmental reviews or collaboration with the local council, that an immigration detention facility would be built on it. This was despite the number of illegal immigrants in Florida declining since 2018, but we all know this isn’t about fighting illegal immigration.

It’s about making anyone who isn’t white terrified of staying in their country, whether they’re American or not.

How did Alligator Alcatraz become so famous?

The name was given in June 2025, when Uthmeier officially announced the centre on Twitter. In the video he posted to Elon Musk’s hellsite, he said the fact that the centre was right in the middle of a part of the Florida swamps known for alligator activity was no accident. In fact, it was chosen as a way of deterring people from escaping the centre, and more broadly, from entering the country illegally. Which, as we’ve said before, people weren’t.

This wasn’t the only way they were using the area’s geography to their advantage. The area where the detention centre was built is one that is prone to hurricanes. At the centre’s opening, the murderous ghouls that attended the ceremony joked about how this would also discourage people from entering the country illegally. Because they could be locked in this detention centre while a hurricane raged overhead, and the quality of life inside was so poor that it would harm them pretty much exactly the same as it would if they were outside in it.

Though honestly, they don’t need the hurricanes or alligators. Life inside the detention centre seems more brutal than anything outside it. The stories are out there if you look, but suffice it to say, everything you’re expecting is there. Violence from the guards to the inmates, lax sanitation, barely edible food, and dozens of inmates crowded together in individual cells. Hell on Earth barely covers it, and with the ICE raids that have been carried out across the country affecting more naturalised US citizens than actual illegal immigrants, the only conclusion one can come to is that the point of this all isn’t discouraging illegal immigration.

With these vermin, the cruelty is always the point.