Originally published at: Inside One Native American Tribe’s Fight Against The ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Camp
When President Donald Trump toured Florida’s so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” immigrant detention camp on July 1, he cast its location in the Big Cypress National Preserve as a remote and inhospitable place. “We have a lot of bodyguards and a lot of cops that are in the form of alligators,” Trump told reporters. “I wouldn’t want…
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Glad the Miccosukee are adding their voices to the opposition to this demented project.
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Can we all just start calling them concentration camps? That is precisely what they are. Besides, the neofascists will be delighted by the comparison.
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While the Miccosukee have put in decades of work to protect these traditional lands, Osceola said the court fight is bigger than his people.
“We are trying to make sure our sovereign rights as worked on over the years with the governments around us are respected,” Osceola said. “Because if they can bypass the sovereign rights of one people, it gets easier to do that for all people.”
Osceola said he hoped the tribe’s effort to “take a stand here on our sovereign rights” would serve as a guide to others with “indigenous ties.” He noted this includes some of the “people here with indigenous backgrounds from Central or South America” who are being detained as part of Trump’s deportation push.
It might be a swamp to a lot of people but the Everglades are home to the Miccosukee people. They are very serious about protecting their home. The last thing they want is a big prison facility and all the pollution that implies.
Recently their efforts have helped in the revival of the Florida panther (a subspecies of mountain lion.) .They constantly monitor water levels and movement. Think of it this way Trump and Desantis have invaded their sovereign land and shit all over it. I wonder if this is 2025 or 1825. It seems like Trump is trying to pick a modern Indian war.
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I would doubt that Trump gave the Miccosukee (or any other tribe) any consideration at all. If he wants something, he takes it. It doesn’t matter if it’s illegal or if someone else owns the land. His narcissism doesn’t acknowledge that other people’s rights exist.
Trump’s and DeSantis’ actions certainly could lead to a renewed conflict with native tribes, but I don’t think it is through any conscious effort on their parts, just their personality defects that prevent them from treating anyone with dignity.
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Well because the Miccosukee aren’t white. Native People are losers in DonOLD’s eyes. And what is especially vexing to DonOLD are some of the tribes’ casinos. You know because they haven’t bankrupted the tribes like he was bankrupted. It’s just not fair!!
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It is just way too ironic that Native Americans are having their lands stolen once again by a bunch of immigrants who want to keep other immigrants out. They should be able to toss the whole damn lot of them out.
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Trump
“I wouldn’t want to run through the Everglades for long.”
Trump can’t run through the Oval Office for long.
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Donald Trump said that the camp was surrounded by alligators.
Turns out, it was surrounded by Native Americans that have already noticed this:
Trying to keep out the concentration camps gives NIMBY an entire new, even positive, meaning.
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“We have a lot of bodyguards
and a lot of cops that arein the form of alligators,” Trump told reporters.
If only. Although I’d rather seem him ripped apart by Nile crocodiles, the most vicious of the crocodilians, sometimes one can’t be too choosy. So a couple three 12-foot Alligator mississippiensis will do in a pinch.
Gator 1: He tastes a lot like chicken.
Gator 2. Yeah. But I’m detecting ten … no eleven, yes, definitely 11 herbs and spices.
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“It’s an abomination to the whole concept of sovereignty”
Not only that…
Democrats want to provide safe havens for foreigners fleeing the threat of death. Democrats believe in treating these people with respect while facilitating a determination by the courts.
Republicans want to bring protected enclaves of criminals and sadists to every neighborhood, not in service to the communities, but to divide, killing the notion that there can ever be an America.
E Pluribus Unum
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I’d enjoy seeing him put in a position where he had to run through the Everglades, though. Even if he only had to run through the Everglades briefly, I expect it’d be well worht it from a spectator’s standpoint.
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Trump… is going to push for a “long-term extension” of the federalization of the Metropolitan Police Department
FLASH
Trump Won’t Fix Washington
Opts for Big Government – Taxes to Increase
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I’m really pleased to see that the Center for Biological Diversity is involved. They really are the good guys. Maybe I’m biased, since one of my best friends from our teenage years is legal director. For what it’s worth, another one of our friends is in the Trump administration, I mean practically in the line of succession, too, so go figure.
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Yea! So sorry 
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With expedited second-round SCOTUS oral arguments in Louisiana v. Callais set for October 15, a gerrymandering case brought by “non-African Americans”, the inauguration of electoral autocracy is now in sight. Trump really wants to win those 2026 midterms. Clarence, of course, thought Roberts is dragging his feet. Racial dilution now!
The key is the “totality of circumstances” test.
(a)
No voting qualification or prerequisite to voting or standard, practice, or procedure shall be imposed or applied by any State or political subdivision in a manner which results in a denial or abridgement of the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color, or in contravention of the guarantees set forth in section 10303(f)(2) of this title, as provided in subsection (b).
(b)
A violation of subsection (a) is established if, based on the totality of circumstances, it is shown that the political processes leading to nomination or election in the State or political subdivision are not equally open to participation by members of a class of citizens protected by subsection (a) in that its members have less opportunity than other members of the electorate to participate in the political process and to elect representatives of their choice. The extent to which members of a protected class have been elected to office in the State or political subdivision is one circumstance which may be considered: Provided, That nothing in this section establishes a right to have members of a protected class elected in numbers equal to their proportion in the population.
Louisiana is about 1/3 black, so the current congressional delegation of 4 white Republicans and 2 black Democrats hardly seems controversial. But you would be so wrong, While Jackson Pollock couldn’t have come up with the current district shapes, non-African Americans are hoping for something even wilder and more Republican.
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As Trump’s Alaska meeting with Putin approaches, it seems clear that the best face-saving move for Trump at this point would be to call the whole thing off. Witkoff botched the Russian intent and Trump finally getting this has tried to “lower expectations.” Even so, blowing this thing off might be the wisest move. He has not adequately prepared for this, knows little of the conflict, and is easily distracted. Munich 1938 for Dummies.
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the only people who call the GLADES a swamp, are the morons from up north…the Glades are a massive slow moving river…i would suggest people go there, walk around, and observe…of course,many would be to frightened to leave their cars, which is one reason for the overwhelming ignorance of the place. DESANTIS is diisgrace to his homeland.but he is from north florida so he can be excused for his ignorance of his home state.
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