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The Grand Opening of an American Concentration Camp

The Republicans are proudly calling it “Alligator Alcatraz.” Let’s call it what it is.

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Trump during his tour of the so-called Alligator Alcatraz immigrant detention center in Ochopee, Florida
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What were you doing the day the president attended the opening of an American concentration camp in the Everglades? Dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” by Republican officials because of the predators living in the surrounding swampland, it has been built to cage thousands of people rounded up by ICE and allied law enfo…

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