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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI cannot think of a worse place to be than in the Everglades in the Summer.
So, I wonder what it will be like to work there. If you have a mass incarceration facility, you need a large staff to just do the basics. Those jobs will definitely not be desirable ones, at any pay level. So, how do they get people to show up and work there?
Imagine, if you will, the hottest, stickiest summer day you've ever experienced. Well, that's what it will be like every day this summer at the Donald J. Trump Alligator Concentration Camp. Who is going to work there? I can't even imagine...

S/V Loner
(9,405 posts)
Sogo
(6,464 posts)nt
Tommy Carcetti
(44,027 posts)Gardens and everything.
Maybe even a housekeeper or two.
(IYKYK...)
Silent Type
(10,512 posts)and the facility is more for show than anything. They are counting of some immigrants missing a paper or two just going home.
SergeStorms
(19,670 posts)the size of hummingbirds driving you absolutely mad 24/7.
Wish you were there, Mango Mussolini.
Sogo
(6,464 posts)"This is where Biden wanted me to be. The son of a b...."
SergeStorms
(19,670 posts)Alligator Auschwitz isn't fit for any human being.
Hekate
(98,588 posts)House of Roberts
(6,126 posts)else they would have put it there instead.
Maybe the next one will go in Death Valley...
Srkdqltr
(8,668 posts)Not saying they should be either because they should not, but this warehousing is stupid.
As i said, it is Trump.
Hekate
(98,588 posts)Its intentional
The Blue Flower
(6,024 posts)I grew up in Orlando without a/c. A lifelong friend lives on the edge of Lake Okeechobee. She and her husband built a home in the mountains of North Carolina just to get away from the heat in the summer. It's hard to breathe, hard to move, impossible to sleep. Ever see a flying cockroach--what locals call palmetto bugs? How about clouds of biting gnats or bugs so tiny, we called them 'no see 'ums'? How fast will diseases spread among people jammed together in the heat? This is a plan for mass murder.
Ritabert
(1,378 posts)mitch96
(15,333 posts)Ritabert
(1,378 posts)The Blue Flower
(6,024 posts)They're a pestilence.
Ritabert
(1,378 posts)We didn't go out before sunrise or after sunset.
Conjuay
(2,580 posts)Florida 'summer' is easily twice the length of summer in much of the rest of country.
May is already surprisingly hot, and it continues like that through mid October.
I live in Central FL, and was still surprised at the intensity of the heat and humidity when I visited the Everglades.
Hekate
(98,588 posts)Greg_In_SF
(377 posts)the tents are air conditioned I guess.
sop
(15,221 posts)right through the heart of the Everglades. Feeling the urge, I pulled onto the shoulder, got out of my car, walked about 50 feet to the nearest tree and began urinating. While relieving myself, a massive swarm of mosquitoes descended on my legs, arms, neck and face. Horrified, I made a dash back to the car, pissing myself while I ran, slapping at my arms, legs and face, jumped in and sped away. I was scratching at all the red welts for days. Everglades skeeters are voracious bloodsuckers.
PatSeg
(50,622 posts)I've seen insects unlike anything I even knew existed and HUGE. Of course, the mosquitoes are the worst. It is one place I had no desire to visit again.
dalton99a
(89,471 posts)mitch96
(15,333 posts)peggysue2
(12,025 posts)I'm also convinced the location was chosen for exactly those reasons.
Where can we build a Prison in Hell? Oh yeah, the Everglades!
The heat, the humidity, the alligators (Trump's favorite), the mosquitoes, the sheer exhaustion the climate produces is the grand winner for . . .
Cruelty and shortened lives.
The photo-op of Trump, DeSantis and Noem laughing in front of the open-air cages says it all.
They can't wait for the death drums to begin.
PatSeg
(50,622 posts)Such monsters. Like the villains in a bad B movie.

Hekate
(98,588 posts)Mz Pip
(28,159 posts)Make people suffer for wanting to live in the US. How dare they?
sop
(15,221 posts)Most were arrested at their jobs, or at scheduled immigration hearings while trying to comply with the law. They are not freeloaders, living off welfare and collecting benefits; they work, pay taxes and contribute to the economy. Violations of immigration law are generally civil matters, leading to deportation, not the sort of punishment being meted out at Trump's swamp prison.
doc03
(38,147 posts)air conditioning. Every day 90s and unbearable humidity. Then you add in being in the
middle of nowhere in a tent on a concrete slab surrounded by snakes and alligators. I
wouldn't wish that on anyone. Although the alternative Vietnam was worse.
GoCubsGo
(34,079 posts)For even a few minutes. The stench would be overwhelming. And, say that as someone who worked for years in swamps with much the same conditions as the Everglades.
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