Ahhh, the good old days. Remember the movie Cool Hand Luke? The inmates didn’t have much to entertain them. Cards and the occasional pretty girl washing a car, and, of course, Luke eating too many eggs. Life in prison looked terrible. No wonder Luke shook the bush.
Then we had the real-life version of austere prison conditions with Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s prison camp. Things like cigarettes and soft drinks and hot meals were not on the menu. What was on the menu was a work program and the very basics:
In a crime-obsessed society that tends to believe that criminals are coddled, Arpaio, a 63-year-old Republican, is the poster boy for citizens who want prisoners punished, not rehabilitated. And for Arizonans who want to make the streets safer, the sheriff has sworn hundreds of volunteers into posses to fight prostitution, graffiti, even drug dealing.
And as an aside, that quote is from the Los Angeles Times. It was written 29 years ago. What struck me is that there is zero chance that language would get past LA Times editors today. Not in a million years would that make print now because it doesn’t imply Arpaio is a terrible person.
Times have changed. Prisoners need sex-change operations and hot meals and hot links on the internet. Prisoners need more than the basics. They need to be comfortable.
That may have changed with Alligator Alcatraz.
Alligator Alcatraz: the one-stop shop to carry out President Trump’s mass deportation agenda. pic.twitter.com/96um2IXE7U
— Attorney General James Uthmeier (@AGJamesUthmeier) June 19, 2025
This 30-square-mile area is completely surrounded by the Everglades. It presents an efficient, low-cost opportunity to build a temporary detention facility because you don’t need to invest that much in the perimeter. People get out there, there’s not much waiting for them other than alligators and pythons.
Nowhere to go, nowhere to hide.
That was back in June, and now that the detention facility is up and running, Congress members have made their appearances at the front gate demanding to see the facility.
One of them, who appeared to be the spokesperson of sorts, cries to the media gaggle about the illegal aliens who did not get “due process” before becoming the first residents inside the place, then has the gall to dub the facility a “political stunt.”
This is a group of people that needs to invest in a mirror, if they’re going to talk about political stunts. That’s exactly what this is, much like the fake concern visits to both facilities and immigration courts in states like New Jersey, New York, and California.
It gets even better, though, as Florida’s GOP mocked these attention seekers handily on their official X social media account, thanking them by name for “finally taking an interest in the illegal immigration crisis,” then directing the state lawmakers to the organization’s online shop.
The left’s favorite criminal detainee, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, claims that when not sipping margaritas with Congressmen, he was beaten during his short stay in El Salvador. Claiming abuse — the standard fare for prisoners. Now, at Alligator Alcatraz, an alleged violent felon and soon-to-be deported detainee is claiming, among other things, that the mosquitoes are “the size of elephants,” that the food has worms, and that the lights never go off. You’ll note in the clip that they quote him with his outlandish claims, then move on to his girlfriend, who tells the reporter that he’s a permanent resident, and he was arrested last week.
Illegal migrant held at Alligator Alcatraz says “the mosquitoes are the size of elephants”
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) July 8, 2025
The tatted-up detainee (I couldn’t make out his name when the reporter said it) was arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Apparently, a man trying to repossess a jet-ski was assaulted by the bottle blonde-haired AA resident, who apparently pulled a deadly weapon on the repossessor. ICE picked him up, and now he is complaining about the food and bugs.
Maybe he should mount Dumbo the Mosquito and make his escape overland?
🤣😂🤣 pic.twitter.com/38J292dzVa
— 😇🇺🇸Angel🇺🇸😇 (@AngelReacts1979) July 8, 2025
Shakin’ the Mosiquito Boss…
Editor’s Note: Thanks to President Trump, illegal immigration into our great country has virtually stopped. Despite the radical left’s lies, new legislation wasn’t needed to secure our border, just a new president.
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