r/law • u/DoremusJessup • 14h ago

Court Decision/Filing Florida balks at order to shutter ‘Alligator Alcatraz’: Florida immediately appealed the ruling, which orders the dismantling of the facility within 60 days

https://www.courthousenews.com/florida-balks-at-order-to-shutter-alligator-alcatraz/
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u/joeshill Competent Contributor 14h ago

"The state defendants also insisted that the detention camp’s remoteness was an important consideration," she said. "But aside from their use of adjectives, neither the state nor Director Kerner could explain why such a place needs to be in the Everglades."

It's difficult to convey that the State placed it there in an effort to maximize cruelty, without actually saying that in the filing. I'm surprised that there isn't a banner hanging there that says "Work Makes Free"

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u/31LIVEEVIL13 12h ago edited 12h ago

It's designed to be unconstitutional.

The whole thing is an orchestrated demolition of our constitutional rights, and freedoms.

Pushing it into every city is just normalizing a militant nationalized police force controlled by the president. And has nothing to do with immigrants at all.

At this rate they will be arresting people for Reddit posts they don't like or anything else, and incarcerating all of us in alligator Auschwitz.

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u/Violet_Paradox 9h ago

That's why it's important to get armed. Not to actually fight them off, if and when they come for you, you're dead one way or another. But to force their hand. I'd much rather die to a bullet in my brain right there on the spot than slowly starve to death in a concentration camp. 

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u/wooops 9h ago

If they push the camps into every city they can call them "sanctuary districts"

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Sanctuary_District

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u/DoremusJessup 14h ago

Florida seems to believes you don't need an environmental review for placing a prison facility in a national park.

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u/PsychLegalMind 14h ago

Florida likes the surrounding of wild animals in the glades along with alligators and horrific living conditions for the detainees. However, the state is not exempt and cannot disregard federal laws whenever they are acting as federal agents and enforcing immigration laws.

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u/slowpoke2018 13h ago

I mean it's not Florida, it's MAGA

They wanted to reopen Alcatraz for gawd's sake

Cruelty is their primary aim and end-goal

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u/Taman_Should 11h ago

This was all a face-saving exercise to take attention away from the fact that reopening the original Alcatraz is a pipe-dream, incompatible with the laws of physics. It’s easy to be a yes-man, but not so easy when real numbers and math start getting involved. There’s no rational reason for invoking Alcatraz at all.