Forget hurricane season--FEMA funds are going to new prisons

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The Trump administration is finally going to spend a decent chunk of Federal Emergency Management Agency funds—but it’s going to be used to build an immigration detention center in Florida. And Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier could not be more hyped.

On Monday, Noem said that FEMA will fund “in large part” the construction of what Uthmeier is calling “Alligator Alcatraz” in a remote part of the Everglades. It will be surrounded by alligators and pythons, making one of President Donald Trump’s first-term fantasies come true. Trump also really wants to reopen the actual Alcatraz in San Francisco, but he might have to settle for this low-rent version for now.

Part of Noem’s invented justification for this is the MAGA conspiracy theory that President Joe Biden spent hundreds of millions of FEMA funding to house Tren de Aragua gang members in luxury New York hotels. In reality, Congress created and funded FEMA’s Shelter and Services Program for state and local governments, which must be used “for noncitizen migrants following their release from DHS.” The money is supposed to be used to provide immigrants with shelter, food, transportation, and medical care during their immigration proceedings.

In Noem’s world, a prison in the middle of the Everglades totally fits the bill. The detention center will be on the site of the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, which is part of Miami-Dade County where officials raised several concerns about this, including the environmental impact on the delicate Everglades ecosystem and its cost. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis solved this by using his emergency powers to seize the land from the county.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/25/2329869/-Forget-hurricane-season-FEMA-funds-are-going-to-new-prisons

[Irish_Dem]

1. Some people will get very rich off of this scam.

[BOSSHOG]

2. So who will be in charge if

A hurricane floods an immigration detention center?

The only thing we will know for sure, it will all be Joe Bidens fault. Because the other only thing we know for sure is that members of the party of responsibility never take responsibility for anything. But they always say “I believe” seldom if ever say “I know.”

[Cha]

3. What Could Go Fucking Wrong?

From someone who appreciated FEMA in 1992 when Hurricane Iniki Hit Kauai.. and all the devastation it Caused.

[hunter]

4. They'll make it crime not to have hurricane insurance.

This insurance will not be widely available so they can put hurricane victims in prison.

And then they can put these prisoners to work, replacing all the immigrant workers they deported, with no pay and even worse working conditions than the immigrants endured.