Florida officials hastily built the detention center last year, prompting a string of lawsuits

Guards inside Florida’s notorious “Alligator Alcatraz” immigrant detention facility are reportedly wearing patches featuring the Grim Reaper and the words “You can’t hide.”

A former guard at the facility, which sits on an old airstrip in a remote patch of the Everglades, reportedly made the patches and distributed them to other staff members.

“What I saw was ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ a skeleton dressed in black holding a hatchet and a crocodile underneath,” former detainee Lewis Ortigoza told the Miami Herald of the patch. “It looked like something demonic.”

“I always felt haunted by it, but I never said anything because I was so afraid,” he added.

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    4 hours ago

    I thought this place was shut down cause of lawsuits over environmental impact ? (Cause that was the only way to fight it).

    ?

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    “I always felt haunted by it [the patches], but I never said anything because I was so afraid,” he added.

    That isn’t terrifying: it’s moronic. It’s the kind of striving, pathetic thing you’d expect from a 10-year old boy, doodling on a piece of paper, wishing that someone, anyone would take him seriously.

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    Behind the orange curtain in Trumpghanistan the regime inch toward a final solution.

    And still no nation wide general strike …