Democrats describe the illegal immigrant detention center in Florida’s Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz” as cruel and a waste of federal funds.
Democrat members of Congress visited the site, Saturday, July 12, and described seeing bugs on mattresses, toilets, sinks and showers that lacked privacy, small food portions, and temperatures between 83 and 85 degrees in the air-conditioned areas.
“There are really disturbing, vile conditions, and this place needs to be shut the hell down,” said Democrat South Florida U.S. Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz of the detention center at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport.
The South Florida Democrat said 32 men slept in each of the cages with bed bunks. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced hundreds of people started arriving on July 2.
WOW! I know exactly what she’s talking about. As a legal immigrant from Canada I was confined to a similar U.S. government facility in the 1960s. My internment lacked the luxury of air conditioning despite temperatures in the 90s and higher. Food portions were generous, but you ate what you were served or “wore it” threatened those in charge.
I was transported there by bus, had my head shaved upon arrival, was issued clothing, and housed with more than 60 other men in an old two-story wooden building without fans, much less air conditioning.
We slept on bunk beds, were forced to continually clean the facility and had no access to TV or radio. Some of those in my group admitted their criminal backgrounds, explaining that they had been sent there by order of a judge.
Before the sun came up each morning we were awakened by whistle-blowing, screaming men, who ordered us out of bed, to wash and shave in a communal bathroom, then run a mile and perform a series of exercises. Those that couldn’t cut it were cursed at and publicly shamed. They even pulled the overweight guys out, segregating them into a group they called the “Fat Boys.”
My facility was Fort Jackson, a U.S. Army Basic Training site in Columbia, South Carolina, where I spent eight sweltering July and August weeks training to be a U.S. Army soldier. It was named in honor of President Andrew Jackson. It could have been worse, as many of my Ft. Jackson colleagues discovered. The jungles of Vietnam didn’t offer the luxuries of Fort Jackson. And there were people over there who intended to kill us. Several of my friends died in that conflict.
Friends and relatives that experienced similar training camps told me they had it worse, relating stories of their experiences at U.S. Marine Corps boot camps in Parris Island, S.C. and San Diego, CA.
Even though I was a legal immigrant resident of the U.S. from Canada, I, along with all other young men my age, were eligible for the U.S. military draft and were required to register when we reached the age of 18.
While many Americans my age skedaddled across the border to Canada to avoid the draft, my Canadian family said: “Nope, your father, uncles and bothers served in the military (Canadian and U.S., World War I and II, and Korea) and you will too.” I followed my conscience and their counsel and have no regrets. Just the opposite. I am proud of my service to my adopted country.
My conservative leanings were already trending during my military service. I became a life-long Republican during Democrat Jimmy Carter’s presidency when he pardoned those American men that fled to Canada to avoid U.S. military service. He offered not an iota of thanks to those that performed their duty and served their country.
I am now a naturalized U.S. citizen, have lived and worked in several European countries, and traveled to many others. I’m proud of my U.S. military service and can’t imagine what possesses natural citizens and legal immigrants to malign this country. It’s unimaginable to me. We are incredibly blessed to live here.
Wasserman Schultz, who sports a hairdo that looks like a server in an Italian restaurant dumped a bowl of soggy fusilli on her, easily ranks in the top 10 of the most obnoxious and dimmest Congressional representatives.
The 56-year-old Queens, New York transplant represents Florida’s 25th Congressional District North of Miami, that includes much of southern Broward County.
Another far-left nitwit whining about the “treatment” of illegals, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minnesota, appeared alongside Tennessee Representative Justin Jones, doing what she does best, screaming anti-American rhetoric about federal immigration enforcement actions.
The Somalian-born Omar reportedly said: “The reality is when they come for one of us, they’re eventually going to come for all of us, We’re seeing people be abducted and sent to dungeons in foreign countries and people disappearing with no accounting for where they’ve gone.”
When’s the last time this disgusting nitwit visited her native Somalia? The unfortunate wretches living there would consider “Alligator Alcatraz” the lap of luxury.
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Speaking Of Illegal Aliens: The scope of what ICE accomplished in Houston alone during the month of June reveals just how serious the illegal immigration threat has become. Officers arrested 1,361 illegal immigrants in the Houston area, each with criminal charges or convictions that should terrify any parent. Among them were 32 individuals previously convicted of child sex offenses, nine convicted of homicide-related crimes, and 16 believed to be gang or drug cartel members. Perhaps most shocking of all is one arrestee was a convicted airplane hijacker.
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New York’s Loss = Florida’s Gain: To paraphrase the late H.L. Mencken the people of New York who intend to vote for Islamic Marxist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani “know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”
Ignorant New Yorkers voting for Mamdani will be a blessing for Florida realtors and home sellers as it would inspire the wealthiest and most successful to flee his Marxist nightmare with many of them heading here.
According to Tim Weisheyer, president of Florida Realtors, the Florida real estate market is experiencing a significant transformation, moving from the pandemic-driven frenzy to a more balanced landscape. Panicked New Yorkers will discover a housing bonanza and tax haven.
Weisheyer, head of the largest realtor association in the United States, offered a perspective on what fleeing New York homebuyers could expect.
“Buyers right now are in one of the best positions they’ve been in in the last handful of years,” he explained. “There’s enough inventory to where a buyer gets to pick and choose what home they really want.”
If Mamdani is elected they’ll sell fast.
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But Wait! There’s More: New Yorkers who sell a home in their expensive Empire State neighborhoods may realize enough money to pay cash for a new home in a lower cost region such as Florida and have money left over.
Marxist lunatic Mamdani’s public disdain for billionaires could also convert Miami into the financial capital of America with wealthy CEOs moving their business empires and employees South.
While the communist antisemitic nutjob, who preaches “Globalize the Intifada,” is viewed with contempt by most New Yorkers, he is probably being mentally cheered on by realtors, home sellers, and businesses hereabouts.
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Speaking Of Housing: The median price for an existing home in 2014, according the July 16 Wall Street Journal, was $412,500, appreciably outpacing household income growth.
The WSJ went on to say that rising interest rates have made it even worse, with average interest rates pushing monthly payments $1,445 in 2021 to $2,570 in 2024. Rising insurance rates have increased that to $3,270.
So, to qualify, the average annual income for a mortgage on the median home has risen by more than 60 percent since 20221. How many can qualify?
New Yorkers doing the math are probably drooling over real estate in the Sunshine State.
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Big Beautiful Bill Explained: Folks with tax and Medicaid questions about the recently passed Big Beautiful Bill can go to local Congressman Aaron Bean’s Votes and Legislation | Representative Bean to get answers. He thoroughly addressed some of the most frequently asked questions and clears up a lot of confusion. If you can’t find what you want, sign up for his next townhall at 5 pm, Monday July 21.
Mr Scott,
Thank you for your service to our country.
The Democrat Communist Party doesn’t know what a true statement looks like.
We are blessed to have Donald Trump and his hard working administration attempting to eradicate the deep, deep state and their money laundering operations such as USAID, PBS, NPR while minimizing American citizen tax dollars going to alien invaders
Our Commissioners and city permitting people should all be fired for not representing the residents, overspending on legal fees, being incapable of making simple decisions, and causing our taxes to be ridiculously high. Just check the status of Ryam litigation, tent warehouses at the port, Bretts ridiculous saga, Tringali property development, paid parking, south end condo development, and allowing land parcel changes all over for tiny narrow homes in the downtown area. The Tringali permits should have been immediately revoked and trees and earth movers have worked all week destroying the beauty of the parcel.
As usual a great blog.
Dave, I had almost forgotten about Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former Democratic National Committee spokespoodle and current (for some reason) congressperson.
A quick peek at her profile demonstrates that she is still singing the same old tune. A tweet: “First Republicans let billionaire Elon Musk go through Americans’ private data. Then they give massive tax breaks to billionaires.”
“Going through Americans’ private data,” is otherwise known as rooting out waste and fraud. Giving “…massive tax breaks to billionaires” is otherwise known as cutting taxes.
Of course billionaires get the biggest tax breaks; they potentially pay more than anyone else in taxes. (It’s hard to give tax breaks to the 40 percent of citizens who don’t pay anything.)
In 2021 the aforementioned Mr. Musk paid more in income tax than has any human in world history: $11 billion. According to Wasserman Schultz and her ilk, it wasn’t enough.
It never is.
What action are you recommending here, or are you just venting?
Excellent Blog. I too was housed in a dilapidated 2 story wooden , non- air conditioned barracks in basic training in the summer in NC–climatizing for Vietnam. “No pain, no gain”-“mind over matter, we don’t mind and you don’t matter”
Love the pic of you, Dave, thank you for your service!!
Comparing a military boot camp to a migrant detention center is a false equivalence. One trains soldiers. The other cages people without charges, in heat and filth. That’s not the same.
Calling migrants “illegals” and mocking their pain is dehumanizing. Whether you like how they got here or not, they’re still human. And America stands for due process, not punishment first.
Waving the flag while defending cruelty is weaponized patriotism. Real love of country means holding it to its ideals, not excusing its abuses.
Mocking women’s looks and calling elected officials “disgusting” isn’t strength, it’s sexist and racist bullying. We can do better than that.
If we’re defending cages, not compassion, we’ve lost our moral compass. This isn’t about being left or right, it’s about what kind of country we are.
I look at what this country has become, and it truly saddens me. I can’t understand how simple human compassion has become controversial.
Our moral compasses feel completely out of alignment. I don’t know when empathy became weakness, or when basic decency became political.
I just know we’re better than this, and I still believe we can find our way back.
If that’s not phony virtue you’re babbling, I don’t know what is, “Gayle.” The people in detention at a minimum are here illegally- a federal CRIME. No additional “charges” are needed. So yes, they are “illegals.” Some have committed far worse crimes, but instead of capture, detention, prosecution, deportation and long imprisonment, they were coddled by people and things you probably voted for. No luxury hotels for them this time.
The financial, social, safety, health and political costs of absorbing over 20 million ILLEGALS during the Biden administration alone, is intolerable and totally unnecessary.
Let’s start by enforcing our laws first, please and protecting OUR Citizens. AMERICA FIRST! Trump/MAGA/Congress are finally fixing this. Does that trigger you, Gayle? GOOD! No “moral compass” problems, except for your own and those of your fellow Woke travelers.
As for the local officials doing disgusting things, does that make them disgusting, too? Semantics.
Bravo!! And Amen.