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'Alligator Alcatraz", ready for a hurricane. Rain, not so much.

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    Alligator Alcatraz opened Tuesday without a water view. Then it rained. Shortly after President Donald Trump left the brand new detention facility to hold immigrants in the middle of the Everglades, a garden-variety South Florida summer rainstorm started. The water seeped into the site — the one that earlier in day the state’s top emergency chief had boasted was ready to withstand the winds of a “high-end” Category 2 hurricane — and streamed all over electrical cables on the floor. “For those people that don’t think we’re taking that into consideration. This is Florida, by the way,” Kevin Guthrie, executive director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, had told reporters earlier in the middle of Trump’s visit. “We have a hurricane plan.” But perhaps not a plan for about an inch-and-a-half of rain, which is what fell over the site on Tuesday afternoon, according to estimates from the National Weather Service in Miami.

    https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article309817040.html

    When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier

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      Wow.

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        This bunch of chuckleheads could screw up a two car funeral.

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          I wonder who did the work and how they got the job?

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            I wonder who did the work and how they got the job?

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            @Steve-Miller

            From Rolling Stone:

            https://archive.is/SzrpB#selection-957.0-1476.0

            But you probably already knew, or at least guessed that.

            When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier

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              Well, it's going to be heavy rain in Florida today and tomorrow.

              Six inches is forecast for the west coast.

              This facility will have much more than one and a half inches fall on it.

              I didn't know Trump had build this in the Everglades.

              Clearly, the only reason to do it was PR, and it backfired.

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                @Steve-Miller

                From Rolling Stone:

                https://archive.is/SzrpB#selection-957.0-1476.0

                But you probably already knew, or at least guessed that.

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                @wtg said in 'Alligator Alcatraz", ready for a hurricane. Rain, not so much.:

                @Steve-Miller

                From Rolling Stone:

                https://archive.is/SzrpB#selection-957.0-1476.0

                But you probably already knew, or at least guessed that.

                Here's the Bloomberg report referenced in the RS article:

                The Alligator Alcatraz contractors include SLSCO Ltd., a Galveston, Texas-based construction firm that built parts of the first Trump administration’s border wall; Garner Environmental Services, a disaster-relief company that has worked with New York City on migrant care; Doodie Calls, a portable-toilet provider; and CDR Companies, which will run medical services and did some site preparation, according to the three people, who asked not to be identified discussing information that hasn’t been made public.

                https://archive.is/b3Gwg

                Never miss an opportunity to make a buck:

                Alligator Alcatraz has been cheered by conservative pundits, and the Florida GOP is selling Alligator Alcatraz t-shirts, hats and beer koozies

                When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier

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                  Figuring it out, one person at a time.

                  The president won Miami-Dade County in 2024 in a landslide, turning a longtime Democratic stronghold decisively red. Cuban and Venezuelan voters were among his biggest backers, drawn by his pledges to take a hard line against the regimes they’d fled.

                  Now, some of his staunchest backers are feeling conflicted.

                  US Representative Carlos Gimenez, a Republican, told reporters there is “a better way, a more just way,” to approach immigration enforcement. Representative Maria Elvira Salazar said on X that she’s “heartbroken” over the uncertainty in her central Miami district.

                  “This is not what I voted for,” Ileana Garcia, the daughter of Cuban immigrants and a Florida state senator who founded Latinas for Trump, posted on X. “This undermines the sense of fairness and justice that the American people value.”

                  https://archive.is/pCqgF

                  When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier

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                    “This is not what I voted for,” Ileana Garcia, the daughter of Cuban immigrants and a Florida state senator who founded Latinas for Trump, posted on X. “

                    Narrator: It was, in fact, exactly what she voted for.

                    “This undermines the sense of fairness and justice that the American people value.”

                    Narrator: How quaint!”

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