Attending the formal opening of “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida today, the President is seeking to burnish his tough-guy, law-and-order credentials by proving a willingness to surround the migrants he plans to hold in America’s latest deportation detention centre with alligators, snakes and other deadly swamp creatures.
Activity at an immigration detention facility dubbed Alligator Alcatraz located at an isolated Everglades airfield (Photo: WSVN via AP)Its perimeter is surrounded by the wetlands that are home to alligators, pythons, rattlesnakes, deadly spiders and crocodiles, including Florida’s infamous 14ft “Croczilla” – and the White House is making no bones about the fact that any escapee is likely to run into them.
(Photo: Office of Attorney General James Uthmeier via AP)The Florida Attorney General, James Uthmeier, said: “If people get out, there’s not much waiting for them other than alligators and pythons.”
A Florida’s invasive Burmese python in Ochopee, Florida, which lurks in the wilderness surrounding the detention camp (Photo: Marco Bello/ Reuters)Judges have sought, largely unsuccessfully, to constrain deportation flights out of the country. Last week, the US Supreme Court gave Trump the go-ahead to expedite the removal of detainees to nations other than their own, in those cases where their own country refuses to take them.
The area surrounding the construction site of Alligator Alcatraz (Photo: Marco Bello/ Reuters)On Monday, the agency’s Acting Director reacted furiously to CNN’s coverage of a new app that allows migrants and critics of the mass deportations to track ICE operations all over the country. “ICEBlock” allows users to tell one another about ongoing agency operations that they witness. Todd Lyons fumed that the crowd-sourced app “paints a target on federal law enforcement officers’ backs” and called it “sickening”. That descriptive, however, is the same adjective that many critics use to describe his agents’ daily activities.
Towards the end of his first term in office, the President presided over the executions of a record number of inmates on the federal government’s death row, dispatching 12 men and one woman in rapid succession. He has doubled down on his pledge to expand the use of the death penalty during his second term in office.
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“Alligator Alcatraz” is Trump’s latest effort to throw raw meat at his voting base, and prove to other tough-guy world leaders including Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping that he is eager to join their club. Even before the facility accepts its first detainee, his supporters can purchase merchandise touting the President’s new, evil lair.
In the 1973 film version of Live and Let Die, James Bond, played by Roger Moore, uses the backs of four crocodiles as stepping stones in a successful effort to escape Dr Kananga’s farm. Trump is betting that in the Florida everglades, the alligators will prove tougher for any escaping deportees to corral.
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