Oh, my godness 😔...

#Trump hat die Indigenen auch auf dem Kieker.

#miccosukee
#indigenous #IndigeneUSA #AlligatorAlcatraz

ist das alles grausam...

#Trump vetoes #Miccosukee #flood protection, citing tribe’s opposition to ‘#AlligatorAlcatraz’

https://floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/31/trump-vetoes-miccosukee-flood-protection-citing-tribes-opposition-to-alligator-alcatraz/

The Miccosukee Tribe’s lawsuit contesting an #immigration detention facility in the Everglades cost them federally funded flood protection, at least if President Donald Trump gets his way.  President Donald Trump on Tuesday vetoed HR 504, federal legislation intended to provide flood protection to Osceola Camp, a Miccosukee residential area in the Everglades. In his veto letter, the president blamed the tribe for having “actively sought to obstruct reasonable immigration policies that the American people decisively voted for when I was elected.”

Trump vetoes Miccosukee flood protection, citing tribe’s opposition to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ • Florida Phoenix

The Miccosukee Tribe’s lawsuit contesting an immigration detention facility in the Everglades cost them federally funded flood protection, at least if President Donald Trump gets his way.  President Donald Trump on Tuesday vetoed HR 504, federal legislation intended to provide flood protection to Osceola Camp, a Miccosukee residential area in the Everglades. In his veto […]

Florida Phoenix

Ambientalistas ratifican su lucha contra el centro de detención “Alligator Alcatraz” en EE.UU.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.telesurtv.net/ambientalistas-ratifican-lucha-contra-centro-alligator-alcatraz-ee-uu/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/27/alligator-alcatraz-immigration-detention-florida-desantis “The environmental groups and Miccosukee tribe had argued in their lawsuit that further construction and operations should be stopped until federal and state officials complied with federal environmental laws. Their lawsuit claimed the facility reversed billions of dollars spent over decades on environmental restoration.” #USPolitics #Conservation #Everglades #Miccosukee #HumanRights
‘Alligator Alcatraz’ to be vacated in compliance with court order to shut it

Reported email by state official confirms state will shutter prison though governor Ron DeSantis has appealed

The Guardian

In the heart of the #Miccosukee, the Native American tribe that shut down #AlligatorAlcatraz

https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-25/in-the-heart-of-the-miccosukee-the-native-american-tribe-that-shut-down-alligator-alcatraz.html

The community found refuge from white persecution deep in the Everglades swamps centuries ago. Together with environmental groups, they succeeded in forcing the closure of the immigration detention center built on their ancestral lands

In the heart of the Miccosukee, the Native American tribe that shut down Alligator Alcatraz

The community found refuge from white persecution deep in the Everglades swamps centuries ago. Together with environmental groups, they succeeded in forcing the closure of the immigration detention center built on their ancestral lands

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Industrial Workers of the World #IWW #Gainesville General Membership Branch

Solidarity with Indigenous and #migrantworkers against #Florida concentration camps:
#AlligatorAlcatraz, and #CampBlanding, and abhorrent occupation on the land of the #Seminole and #Miccosukee tribes violating indigenous treaties.
We, the Gainesville IWW, condemn ICE for abducting workers, without due process and/or lawful representation given to them, and their blatant theft of #FirstNations / indigenous land.

They built a detention camp just 900 feet from Miccosukee ceremonial grounds. Now the tribe is fighting back. Streaming on July 25 at 12 PM ET. RSVP here: https://bit.ly/46jA4bz #NativeBidaské #AlligatorAlcatraz #Miccosukee #TribalSovereignty #EnvironmentalJustice #Everglades #SacredLand
Native Bidaské: The Growing Fight Against Alligator Alcatraz

Other event by Native News Online on Friday, July 25 2025

HT @UsagiTsukino

#Indigenous and Green Groups Protest #ICE’s “#AlligatorAlcatraz” in the #Everglades

Florida’s attorney general announced that construction of the jail in the #BigCypressNationalPreserve had begun.

By Stephen Prager, June 30, 2025

"Florida’s government has said the site will have no environmental impact. Last week, Uthmeier described the area as a barren swampland. He said the site '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’s not much waiting for ’em other than alligators and pythons,' he said in the video. 'Nowhere to go, nowhere to hide.'

"But local #indigenous leaders have said that’s not true. Saturday’s protest was led by #NativeAmerican groups, who say that the site will destroy their sacred homelands. According to The Associated Press, #BigCypress is home to 15 traditional #Miccosukee and #Seminole villages, as well as ceremonial and burial grounds and other gathering sites.

" 'Rather than Miccosukee homelands being an uninhabited wasteland for alligators and pythons, as some have suggested, the Big Cypress is the Tribe’s traditional homelands. The landscape has protected the Miccosukee and Seminole people for generations,' Miccosukee Chairman Talbert Cypress wrote in a statement on social media last week.

"#EnvironmentalGroups, meanwhile, have disputed the state’s claims that the site will have no environmental impact. On Friday, the #CenterForBiologicalDiversity, #FriendsOfTheEverglades, and #Earthjustice sued the Department of Homeland Security in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. They argued that the site was being constructed without any of the environmental reviews required by the #NationalEnvironmentalPolicyAct.

" 'The site is more than 96% wetlands, surrounded by Big Cypress National Preserve, and is habitat for the endangered #FloridaPanther and other iconic species. This scheme is not only cruel, it threatens the #Everglades #ecosystem that state and federal taxpayers have spent billions to protect,' said Eve Samples, executive director of Friends of the Everglades.

"Governor #RonDeSantis used emergency powers to fast track the proposal, which the Center for Biological Diversity says has left no room for #PublicInput or #EnvironmentalReview required by federal law.

" 'This reckless attack on the Everglades — the lifeblood of Florida — risks polluting sensitive waters and turning more endangered Florida panthers into roadkill. It makes no sense to build what’s essentially a new development in the Everglades for any reason, but this reason is particularly despicable,' said Elise Bennett, Florida and Caribbean director and attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity."

Read more:
https://truthout.org/articles/indigenous-and-green-groups-protest-ices-alligator-alcatraz-in-the-everglades/

#ACAB #ICESucks #ICEKidnapping #GatorGitmo #Fascism #Authoritarianism #DeSantisSucks

Indigenous and Green Groups Protest ICE’s “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Everglades

Florida’s attorney general announced that construction of the jail in the Big Cypress National Preserve had begun.

Truthout

@catsrule0000 Complete ignorance, make no mention of that land being sacred to those that have been marginalized since ships came to shore.

https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/local/state/2025/07/02/seminole-tribe-calls-alligator-alcatraz-threat-to-sacred-lands-florida/84450024007/

Alligator Alley, Big Cypress, It's beautiful.

Leave it alone or celebrate it.

#Seminole #Miccosukee #Everglades #BigCypress #Phish #AlligatorAlley #Florida

Seminole Tribe of Florida joins opposition to 'Alligator Alcatraz' in Everglades

The Seminole Tribe of Florida joined the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida and the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma in denouncing Alligator Alcatraz.

The Florida Times-Union