They built a cage in the Everglades and called it a win

They built a detention facility in the Everglades. Tents. Portable bathrooms. Remote, environmentally sensitive land. Called it Alligator Alcatraz. [pause] It costs a million dollars a day to run. Now they're talking about closing it. Not because 1,400 men are living in tents in the swamp. Because it's expensive. [pause] DeSantis is calling it a success. The ACLU says detainees just get transferred. Betty Osceola is asking someone to clean up the sewage they dumped into protected land. [pause] So here's what happened. They built a human cage in a national treasure, traumatized families, violated environmental law, and the only thing that slowed them down was the invoice. [pause] People say the cruelty was never the point. [chuckles] It was always the point. The bill just came due.