I have a limited choice for you this week because
I have some things that I think would be good
to cover for the mini, but I've just, I've not
been saving them into my choice document, my
regular choice document. I've been saving it
into my notepad to transfer it into my document.
So I'm just going to choose one. Okay. Cause
all I'm hearing is excuses right now. So let's
just get past those. Yeah. Yeah. I probably shouldn't
have started with that, but here we are. So this
one's from boardpanda .com. That doesn't sound
any different than most pandas. I don't think
that's an adjective You need to add to pan honestly
doesn't sound any different than any of our regular
sources Sometimes at least we know how to pronounce
this one. I assume yeah This one is titled hundreds
of detainees reportedly missing from ice records
after being sent to alligator Alcatraz Oh, I
know about this one. It's real up. It's Peter
Michael de Jesus and it was published September
29, 2025. I thought it would be good to cover
because I haven't heard anything on it. So, a
chilling report has suggested that nearly two
-thirds of the 1 ,800 men brought to Florida's
new immigration detention center, branded Alligator
Alcatraz, could not be found in federal databases.
Families and attorneys have claimed that they've
lost track of loved ones with numerous detainees
reportedly disappearing from official records.
The U .S. Department Department of Homeland Security,
however, has claimed that none of the detention
centre's detainees are unaccounted for. News
about Alligator Alcatraz's missing detainees
was initially reported by the Miami Herald, which
obtained two detainee rosters from July and August.
By checking them against Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, ICE, databases, the Herald alleged
that a good portion of the centre's detainees
seemed to be missing. Reporters reportedly found
that a around 800 detainees had no records at
all, while another 450 were listed only with
the vague instruction to call ICE for details.
This meant that the whereabouts of nearly 1 ,200
men, or about two thirds of those brought to
the facility in July, could not be determined
by late August. The center, built in just eight
days, and what? I didn't know that. It's tense
in the middle of the bayou. That's crazy. Eight
days and officially run by Florida's division
of emergency management does not maintain a public
detainee database. This has reportedly resulted
in attorneys and family members being left in
the dark. It became a game of chicken to see
who's going to blink first, to see if the client's
going to say, I don't want to be detained in
these conditions, just send me back. That was
a quote. Miami immigration attorney Alex Solomiani
told the Herald. Some men, like a 53 year old
Guatemalan, who had lived in the US since 2001,
reportedly vanished from court dockets after
being detained. His lawyer said he was mistakenly
deported to Guatemala instead of being transferred
to another detention center, according to The
Mirror. In another case, Cuban national Michael
Borrego Fernandez was deported to Mexico despite
recovering from surgery. His family described
the silence around his case as psychological
torture. The US Department of Homeland Security
pushed back on the Herald's in a statement to
Snopes, which asked about the matter, the agency
argued that all of its detainees on the site
are accounted for, quote, false. No one is unaccounted,
including at Alligator Alcatraz. In ICE's online
detention locator system, this is yet another
hoax about the facility, end quote, the USDHS
stated. Attorneys and human rights advocates,
however, claimed otherwise. Court filings from
the American Civil Liberties Union have argued
that the detention center has violated detainees'
constitutional rights by making it nearly impossible
for lawyers to contact their clients. Families
for their part have also claimed that they've
been left in limbo. Records reviewed by the Herald
even suggested that the vast majority of detainees
didn't have final orders of removal before they
entered alligator alcatraz. Snopes concluded
that while it could not independently verify
every name on the Herald's list, real -life cases
like Borrego Fernandez's have shown the detainees
have indeed gone missing from the system or been
deported without notice. The fact -checking website
suggested that this may mean that the missing
detainees in the ISIS system have either been
deported or sent to unknown facilities without
their families or attorneys' knowledge. It's
a temporary stay before being flown to their
home country, one commenter stated. It's called
they got sent back to their country, no one is
missing, wrote another. The reality is that facility
is to detain, process, A bit of a background
on Alligator Alcatraz. Apparently, despite it
only taking eight days to build, it still cost
$20 million to build and it's going to have an
annual budget of $450 million to run. that's
crazy and i do want to comment the fact that
the government is saying oh yeah don't worry
we know where everybody is that's also kind of
damning in that even if that's true they're not
telling people where they are yeah like almost
intentionally if they do know where it is i'm
obviously there's a good chance they're lying
because that's what they love to lie but there's
a chance of that from what i know of it that
seems a boat on brand but people arguing that
maybe they just got sent back to their countries
There would be documentation showing they were
sent back to their countries if they were sent,
particularly with the embassy or the country
that they're being deported to. Well, there is
people being deported to, you know, countries.
Countries they should not be. Yeah. In the middle
of like destitute Africa. Yeah. War zones themselves
like really dangerous to be being deported to.
Yeah, South Sudan, of all places, was getting
some. I can't imagine. I think I might have been
here. Quote, the reality is that this facility
is to detain, process and either deport or release.
The planes leave from the airstrip on the premises.
There's zero reason that they should all still
be there. It's not a prison, another commentator
said. Others, however, remained aghast at the
missing records of the facility's detainees.
There's no record. Deported people have a record.
They just go before a judge. In brackets, you
ever heard of due process? bracket. These people
have been wiped from the database and there's
no record of where they went. It happened in
Germany too. Learn your history end quote one
commenter stated. Over a thousand unaccounted
for from a single facility within the first 60
days of operations. Think about that really really
think about that end quote an article. 20 people
a day going missing. Yes, I don't know that there's
a whole lot to comment on that other than what
you've commented but I thought it was important
nonetheless because I haven't been hearing a
whole lot about that so I just thought it was
good too. And I do think it's important to also
emphasize that although it is like front and
center, this is just one holding center for immigrants
and ICE detainees in the U .S. It's likely a
huge problem and I don't know there is a chance
that the worst case scenario is what has happened
and at least some of these people are dead yeah
yeah but yeah i mean let's not you guys got 48
hours do not focus on that sorry about this wednesday
yep don't do it it's got to get better from here
you would think yeah anyhow bye bye