Alligator Alcatraz: They Promised to Drain the Swamp, But Instead Built a Prison in It
How JAG officers, tent courts, and deportation pipelines reveal the authoritarian ambition behind Trump’s immigration policy.
On July 1, 2025, in the suffocating heat of the Florida Everglades, President Donald Trump arrived at a freshly built migrant detention camp nestled among sawgrass and snakes. Officially named the Southern Border Response Facility, but widely dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” the site had been constructed in just over a week. 3,000 beds inside wire-fenced te…
