The new Florida concentration camp, likely the first of dozens that will be funded by Trump and congressional Republicans’ Budget Reconciliation Bill, is already notorious for overcrowding, unsanitary conditions, and human rights abuses. Its name was coined by a Florida official who heard Trump muse about returning Alcatraz to the federal prison system, and about digging an alligator filled moat on the border between Mexico and the U.S. (Alligators could never survive the aridity and heat of the border.) The president eagerly embraced the insulting appellation and made it the Florida camp’s official name. More
