On the 26th of June, protesters showed up across the street as close as they could get to Sarasota-Bradenton Airport (SRQ). This was one of a series of protests targetting Avelo Airline’s role as a major provider of deportation flights for ICE. Avelo is going to have to choose between the heartless monsters at ICE and their civilian customer base.
In addition to excoriating Avelo Airlines’s ICE flights, they also targetted “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Everglades. This is FL Governor DeathSantis’s under construction and rapidly growing tent city on a disused airstrip. Announced just days ago, this is to be an ICE detention center with a capacity of 4,000 hostages.
Alligator Alcatraz is drawing intense opposition, DeathSantis is trying to create facts on the ground faster than the forces of justice can mobilize to stop his sorry ass.
The entire facility will only be accessable by one road with no turnoffs for dozens of miles: the Tamiami Trail section of US 41. It will be difficult or impossible to evacuate when this fall’s hurricanes come roaring in, and the heat and humidity could prove deadly before then.
Due to this camp’s potential as a death camp, I have sometimes called it not Alligator Alcatraz, but Alligator Auschwitz. Trump and DeSantis are Nazis, and death camps are exactly what Nazis build.