Trump tours Alligator Alcatraz

The state of Florida built a migrant detention facility in the Everglades in eight days, surrounded by alligators and mosquitoes, and the internet immediately started calling it "Alligator Alcatraz." Asmongold and his co-host react to the footage, the political rhetoric around it, and the broader immigration debate, spending most of the episode alternating between laughing at the spectacle and pushing back against critics who compare the facility to Nazi concentration camps.

What the facility actually is

The detention center sits deep in the Florida Everglades, an hour's drive from anywhere. It is a tent structure with chain-link fencing inside, air conditioned, with a 30-foot wall at the entrance and wire along the top. The surrounding area is swamp, and reporters who toured it reported seeing at least 30 alligators on the drive in. The facility is designed to hold migrants who have been processed and are awaiting deportation flights, and there is a runway adjacent to the camp for exactly that purpose. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump toured the site together, with DeSantis explaining that the state built it using FEMA shelter and services funding — the same program, he argued, that the Biden administration used to fund luxury hotel rooms for migrants in New York City. "We took the FEMA money that Joe Biden