The recently shuttered immigrant detention facility continued a long tradition of using alligators in ways that have reinforced demeaning racial stereotypes.
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Writers have mined the region’s turbulent political history to explore how authoritarian rulers bend institutional leaders to their will.
Neither President Donald Trump nor Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis can legally create a new system of immigration judges outside of the one established by Congress.
‘Alligator Alcatraz’ is visual policy aimed to stage terror as a message while making Donald Trump’s authoritarian and fascist politics a material reality.
Alligator Alcatraz represents a significant departure from past Florida policy regarding immigration.
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