1. United States
2. Wash.
3. Letter

Florida doesn't want to be known for torture and prison camps. Alligator Alcatraz is the most inhumane and disgusting idea since the Nazi death camps. DHS plans to reimburse roughly $450 million a year through FEMA’s une 23 with a target opening before mid-July. Shelter & Services funds, and crews began clearing the runway on J The haste assumes ICE and DHS will detain only dangerous felons. History shows otherwise. In past sweeps, lawful residents, asylum-seekers mid-petition, Imagine those mistakes unfolding in a mosquito-thick swamp, far from lawyers, press, or family. The site is also sacred Miccosukee land, inside Big Cypress Preserve. Tribal leaders warn bulldozers are erasing ceremonial grounds and undoing decades of federally funded restoration. This is not a partisan plea; it is a constitutional one. and it tarnishes America’s claim to moral leadership. A remote swamp policed by pythons is the opposite of that promise, I therefore urge you to: 1. Freeze construction until a full public environmental and cultural review is complete. 2. Bar detention based on uncorroborated gang-affiliation lists or profile-based sweeps. 3. Create an independent civil-rights monitor with real-time access to arrests, transfers, and medical logs. 4. Publish a hurricane-season contingency plan that guarantees safe evacuation. Florida has poured billions into rescuing the Everglades; why risk that progress while gambling with innocent lives? Please press pause and demand the guardrails that dignity and the Constitution require.