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riversedge

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Tue Jul 1, 2025, 08:14 PM Jul 1

MAGA Profits From Alligator Alcatraz With Baby Merch [View all]

Source: daily beast




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Farrah Tomazin Published 07.01.25 5:42PM EDT


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The Florida GOP’s website was also filled with merch, including T-shirts for $30, black mesh trucker hats for $27, and a pair of koozies for $15. “Every shirt, hat, or koozie you grab funds our push to keep Florida tough on crime, and tougher on borders,” the Florida GOP wrote in a fundraising email ahead of Trump’s visit. Alligator Alcatraz is a new state-run migrant detention center being built on an airfield site, in Ochopee, west of Miami. But the center, which will cater for up to 5,000 people, has already sparked daily protests from immigration advocates and environmentalists. Asked on Tuesday if the concept behind the facility was to have alligators or snakes eat illegal immigrants who try to escape, Trump replied: “I guess that’s the concept. This is not a nice business.”

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-profits-from-alligator-alcatraz-with-baby-merch/




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