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Well, I'm sure a human domicile would be a bit more robust than "alligator Alcatraz" so instead of 8 days, it might take more like.... 8 weeks? To build something comparable for the homeless?

Depending on how complex each housing unit is (bathrooms/kitchens/whatever) possibly more or less. Idk.

But knowing that the world runs on capitalist dollars, there's no profit in it. They can't pay rent, they don't have any money, and they would actively cost you money, either in property tax, water, power, and/or food... Not to mention any replacement costs for any fixtures or furniture that's damaged/stolen.

Not saying the unhoused are thieves, but a nontrivial number of them are desperate, and desperate people do things that they otherwise wouldn't consider doing.

In any case, the solution to the homeless "problem" (being that people are homeless at all) is not just housing, but also community services to get any drug users into their respective rehabilitation programs, and anyone willing and able to work, into job placements... Mental health services...

All of these things cost money and don't yield any profits, so I understand why they're not done. That doesn't mean I'm ok with it not being done, it's a shame that we've left a portion of the population to fend for themselves on the streets and we almost universally dehumanize them as less than a person because they're homeless. They're people. We should take care of them because they're people.

No child left behind, but anyone post highschool that's living on the streets, fuck them.... I guess.

fun fact: they're probably gonna put the homeless there anyways, as being poor is illegal in the US.

'The land of the free' has one of the highest incarciration rates world wide (source). It must be exceptionally safe around there, no?

Where are they going to deport all our homeless poor to?

Remember? Those people who used to have homes like the one you could have possibly purchased? Perhaps a homeless person used to live in your house at some point in time? Maybe they lost their job, income or became ill or had an accident?

They could be any color. But since they haven't showered, maybe they look brown? Does that mean they can just be deported?

This is what conservatives are. Don't forget it. They will always choose performative cruelty. It's built into the very core of their diseased culture.

The absurd irony of all these "Good Christians" testing the limits of their own religion's capacity to incarcerate hypocrites, liars, and golden idol worshipers in a hell they would certainly end up in after they die.

There is no profit in sheltering the homeless. Those ICE camps are all the rage amongst investors ... particularly private equity firms. Private equity firms will do literal evil to make a few dollars.

Not just for the homeless, people in North Carolina are literally STILL FINDING BODIES, living in tents and cars, and can't swim in any river or lake due to run off pollution

This just shows the government is fine killing us via exposure to the elements

"Built a 3000 bed federal prison in eight days" almost sounds like they finally actually did something, until you realize:

• The compound is located at the site of the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, so there was already infrastructure
• The area for detainees is a tent
• Inside the tent is bunk beds, portapotties and a chain link fence

But yeah, I also would have preferred our government take care of the unhoused (or just done nothing at all) instead of... this.

Daily reminder to all ICE agents. By signing up for ICE, you have signed yourself up for a lifetime of fear and criminal liability. There are Nazi concentration camp guards that were tried for their crimes in their 90s. There is no statute of limitations on crimes against humanity. Your names are recorded; your deeds are known. And you will face justice for your crimes.

I want every Democratic politician to be repeating this every chance they get, a modern day "Carthage must be destroyed." My greatest fear is that when this is done, and Democrats are eventually back in power, that they will fall back on the same suicidal tendencies that got us here in the first place. Obama came into power on the back of the criminal Bush administration, and his first act of office was to declare "it's time to move on," and to announce that no members of the prior regime would be prosecuted. And Biden did the same after the first Trump term. We need to be willing to hold people accountable. And we need to be talking about this now. We need to fully embrace the idea of prosecuting ICE agents for their crimes against humanity. We cannot declare it's time to move on and to let them get away with what they have done.

And no, "I'm just following orders" is not an excuse. Anyone who says that deserves to hang.

Haven’t seen it pointed out, yet, but it should be noted that a chain link fence and some tents are structures that have been completely toppled by far less than 3000 people many, MANY times. These are very fragile things they are building.

On an unrelated note, bolt cutters are not expensive and neither are ground bloomers, tape, and plyers.

"The director tells me it could have been done in 72 hours if we were allowed to make it even more inhumane / unsafe"

Fixed that for you.

It's not that difficult to build a concentration camp with shitty cots, inadequate facilities, and hazardousness as a feature built in on nearly unlivable land in the Everglades.

It likely is slightly more difficult to build housing for homeless people unless you're trying to build death trap, concentration camp housing for them as well.

I don’t suppose anyone thought of humane conditions while building a concentration camp in a Florida swamp. Even prisoners deserve something to control the heat, the humidity, the mosquitoes, or were causing yet more needless deaths

And yes, employees overseeing obviously inhumane conditions should absolutely face justice for those illnesses and deaths

I'm sure plenty of homeless people will get to stay there 😊

I'm so glad the yellow underline exists in this 60-word screenshot to tell me where I should pay attention. I don't think my poor, dystrophied zoomer brain could sit down for the average 15 seconds it would take otherwise.

Sure, they can provide quick housing for the homeless... As long as your standards are "puppy mill" or "chicken farm".

Housing the homeless: I sleep

Build a concentration camp: real shit

Provide unlivable caging, you mean. Homeless people don't deserve to be "housed" in something like this any more than undocumented immigrants do. The reason homeless housing takes money and time is that it's supposed to be humane, and put people where they can interact with the resources of the community. Alligators aren't NIMBYs, and the administration ignored environmentalist organizations that protested on their behalf.

This might be where they ship homeless people when they run out of immigrants

I haven't seen much mention of this but putting people in camps like this in south Florida is a very bad idea. WW1 veterans were housed in hastily constructed camps like this in 1935 in the Florida keys and many were killed by a powerful hurricane that rolled though. There is a reason for the strong building codes and tents do not meet them.