I think I've been clear about the vital importance of describing the ethnonationalist migrant cages at the odiously-named "Alligator Alcatraz" facility in Florida, what they are - a concentration camp. By that same measure however, the presence of one purpose-built concentration camp in the Everglades doesn't preclude the transformation of pre-existing migrant cages into more concentration camps. In fact, while the Trump regime and DHS are working to restrict access to ICE detention centers, reports are leaking out about the horrifying conditions and human rights violations going on inside these facilities all the time. The fact that these stories don't penetrate the national discourse the way the new DeSantis Dachau facility in the swamp does, probably comes down a US society that has totally normalized the Gestapo, its migrant carceral complex, and the idea that it's okay to criminalize and brutalize people for the mere accident of their birth on the wrong side of an imaginary line. In this sense "Alligator Alcatraz" is "special" because the Trumpenreich is practically screaming "we've intentionally built a concentration camp" out loud, while the horrifying concentration-camp like conditions found in "normal" migrant gulags across Texas, Louisiana, or Florida for example, are just "business as usual."

As a recent human rights report about three other migrant detention facilities in Florida proves however, there is nothing "normal" about the way the Trumpenreich and its Gestapo are treating detainees inside these facilities. Gathering reports from former prisoners, immigration lawyers, and families of folks inside the cages, the report finds evidence of overcrowding, intentional cruelty, and institutionalized dehumanization that are creating all the same conditions and dangers for the Gestapo's victims, that lead folks to confidently call "Alligator Alcatraz" a concentration camp with the full weight of history behind them.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/21/migrants-miami-ice-jail-abuses

Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges

"Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs”, according to a report published on Monday into conditions at three overcrowded south Florida facilities.

The incident at the downtown federal detention center is one of a succession of alleged abuses at Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (Ice) operated jails in the state since January, chronicled by advocacy groups Human Rights Watch, Americans for Immigrant Justice, and Sanctuary of the South from interviews with detainees."

This article an organizational mess, but what HRW is reporting on massive overcrowding in the three identified facilities, unsanitary holding conditions, dehumanizing treatment of prisoners (72% of whom have no criminal record) paired with violent reprisals by Gestapo guards, and denial of access to necessary medical or psychological care. For example, the testimony about shackled prisoners being forced to eat like dogs is part of a larger body of evidence that Florida Gestapo minions are cramming far too many people into these gulags and don't seem to care about the dangerous conditions or human rights violations that result.

"The jail was so far beyond capacity, some transferring detainees reported, that they were held for more than 24 hours in a bus in the parking lot. Men and women were confined together, and unshackled only when they needed to use the single toilet, which quickly became clogged.

“The bus became disgusting. It was the type of toilet in which normally people only urinate but because we were on the bus for so long, and we were not permitted to leave it, others defecated in the toilet,” one man said."

Of course, this isn't to make excuses for the Gestapo because not only could they simply jail less people for being brown, but the human rights violations, violence, and dehumanization going on inside of these facilities doesn't appear materially different from the abuses going on in "temporary" holding areas.

"Some suffered delayed treatment for injuries and chronic conditions, and dismissive or hostile responses from staff, the report said.

In one alleged incident in April at the downtown Miami jail, staff turned off a surveillance camera and a “disturbance control team” brutalized detainees who were protesting a lack of medical attention to one of their number who was coughing up blood. One detainee suffered a broken finger."

Folks, it's not good enough to say "the cruelty is the point" while refusing act. The dehumanization and endangerment of brown prisoners inside ICE gulags is an intentional part of a larger fascist ethnic cleansing process that typically ends in mass killings and genocide. Once you start treating people like animals, they stop being human, and that's a necessary precondition for the kind of racialized mass murders that live in historical infamy.