MSNBC’s Ali Velshi with a word of warning on where we’re heading with the right’s dangerous dehumanization of immigrants, and this boondoggle, so-called “Alligator Alcatraz.”
VELSHI: Welcome to the new American dystopia where alligators are cops and humans are treated like animals.
This might sound like an allegory dreamed up by George Orwell for my Velshi banned book club, but it’s not.
This was a real tweet posted on the official White House Twitter page AI alligators sporting ice hats, and a man assumed to be Donald Trump standing behind them.
“Alligator Alcatraz, Make America safe again.”
Deep in the swamplands of Florida, far from civilization is a virtually abandoned 39 square mile airfield. It’s surrounded by deadly wetlands and predators of the marshy Everglades, pythons, swarms of mosquitoes, and hundreds of alligators that roam the area.
This is now the site of a new migrant detention center dubbed Alligator Alcatraz.
According to Governor Ron De Santis of Florida, the facility will have the capacity to accommodate about 3000 detainees when it’s fully operational.
The first group of migrant detainees arrived on Wednesday.
