Welcome to Alligator Alcatraz
Andrew Egger of the Bulwark provides a summary of just some of the depraved actions alleged immigration agents have taken against both alleged undocumented immigrants and bona fide U.S. citizens during ICE’s ongoing immigrant safari in Los Angeles County.
The masked, nonuniformed ravers throwing people into unmarked vans are alleged ICE agents because they refuse to identify themselves or display badges. Seriously, non-felon civilians can buy body armor in most states in the country.
One can spot tricked-out AR-platform rifles at firing ranges from coast to coast.
You can buy Velcro patches that say POLICE on Amazon, for godsakes.
Get an ICE agent patch for your dog!
To all appearances, these unidentified brutalists are brownshirts cosplaying as police.
With Monday’s Supreme Court ruling in favor of the Trump administration, this behavior will get worse. SCOTUS conservatives greenlit the kind of extraordinary rendition that left two dozen CIA agents convicted in absentia in Italy over a dozen years ago. The Milan kidnapping of Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, took place in February 2003 under the Bush-Cheney regime.
Steve Vladeck lays out the frightening details of the SCOTUS decision at his Substack.
Kristi Noem looks to up the ante by building the kind of “FEMA camps the far right has warned about for decades.”
CNN:
“Alligator Alcatraz,” as Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier calls it, is being erected on a little-used airstrip in the Everglades, the vast expanse of marshes and swamps that covers much of southern Florida and hosts a dizzying array of wildlife, from hundreds of bird species to bobcats, panthers, crocodiles and alligators.
“You don’t need to invest that much in the perimeter. If people get out, there’s not much waiting for them other than alligators and pythons,” Uthmeier said in an announcement video that casts the facility as “the one-stop shop to carry out President Trump’s mass deportation agenda” and features slow-motion footage of snapping alligators.
Construction of the new Florida facility comes just weeks after Trump said he had directed federal agencies to reopen the original Alcatraz – a prison famously known for being virtually inescapable because of its location on a small island in the Pacific Ocean off San Francisco. And in his first term, Trump floated the idea of fortifying the US southern border with a water-filled trench infested with alligators, the New York Times reported (Trump denied it).
Next Trump will want to annex Devil’s Island.
What a proud moment for misty-eyed, freedom-loving red-hats.
Update: Added “No Cop” meme.
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