Humanitarian Landscape of the United States in 2025
The humanitarian landscape of 2025 reveals an increasingly disturbing reality: the institutional brutality of U.S. immigration enforcement has metastasized into a domestic apparatus of control, echoing fascist escalations of the 1930s. Nowhere is this more grotesquely embodied than in facilities like Florida’s “ Alligator Alcatraz ,” an Everglades detention complex likened by advocates to a modern internment camp designed under the guise of “national security”.[1][2][3][4] The Rise of Alligator Alcatraz Built amid the Big Cypress National Preserve , Alligator Alcatraz now holds thousands of migrants in overheated FEMA shelters, surrounded by barbed wire and swamp. Reports from members of Congress describe detainees crammed “32 per cage,” crying for “ libertad ” as the state enacts what civil rights lawyers call a “ mass suspension of due process .” The site’s environmental devastation compounds the human tragedy, drawing lawsuits from Indigenous tribes and rights organizations ov...