TELL CONGRESS: The Miami Herald reports that over 1,000 people imprisoned at ICE’s
Alligator Alcatraz detention camp have disappeared. Families and lawyers
don’t know where they are. Advocates are calling the prison an
“extrajudicial blacksite” and “depraved torture camp.” Congress must shut
it down now. Sign the petition: End ICE disappearances — investigate and shut down Alligator Alcatraz
immediately!
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New reporting from the Miami Herald shows that the well-documented horrors
inside Trump’s Alligator Alcatraz ICE detention camp are even worse than
we thought.
ICE has disappeared over 1,000 people taken into custody at Alligator
Alcatraz. Families and lawyers don’t know where they are. For many of
them, there are no publicly available ICE records of their imprisonment.^1
Advocates are now calling Alligator Alcatraz an “extrajudicial blacksite”
because of these terrifying disappearances.^2 “This is like psychological
torture,” said one mother trying to figure out where ICE had taken her
son.^3
Violent ICE raids, vicious abductions, and the wholesale disappearing of
people are now hallmarks of Trump’s mass deportation regime. These are the
policies of an authoritarian who gleefully tramples on civil rights and
the rule of law. Alligator Alcatraz is a center of ICE’s worst abuses and
must be shut down!
[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition: Tell Congress to shut down Alligator Alcatraz
immediately! Fully investigate ICE’s abuses and mass disappearances.
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One advocate called Aligator Alcatraz a “depraved torture camp.”^4 Rep.
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz called it an “internment camp” after visiting the
facility.^5
Instead of addressing ICE disappearing people from their families or the
horrid conditions in ICE prisons — like tens of people sharing the same
toilet, and drinking from water spigots attached to toilets^6 — Trump
officials are celebrating the horror of mass deportations.
Congress must act now and use every power available to stop ICE’s
disappearances and shut down Alligator Alcatraz.
[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition: Shut down Trump’s vile immigrant prison in Florida and
investigate all ICE prisons for widespread abuse. Thanks for taking action,
Joey and the Demand Progress team
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Sources:
1. Miami Herald, "Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the
grid after leaving site,” [ [link removed] ]September 16, 2025.
2. Common Dreams, "Alligator Alcatraz Is an ‘Extrajudicial Black Site,’
Immigrant Advocates Say as Detainees Disappear,” [ [link removed] ]September 26,
2025.
3. Miami Herald, "Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the
grid after leaving site,” [ [link removed] ]September 16, 2025.
4. Common Dreams, "Alligator Alcatraz Is an ‘Extrajudicial Black Site,’
Immigrant Advocates Say as Detainees Disappear,” [ [link removed] ]September 26,
2025.
5. USA Today, "'Help me!' Democrats decry 'vile' conditions at 'Alligator
Alcatraz' immigrant prison,” [ [link removed] ]July 14, 2025.
6. Ibid.
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