{"id":35895,"date":"2026-05-08T13:44:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=35895"},"modified":"2026-05-08T14:47:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:47:31","slug":"der-naechste-sieg-alligator-alcatraz-schliesst-entgueltig-noems-prestigeprojekt-erstickt-am-eigenen-preisschild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/der-naechste-sieg-alligator-alcatraz-schliesst-entgueltig-noems-prestigeprojekt-erstickt-am-eigenen-preisschild\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Defeat: Alligator Alcatraz Shuts Down for Good - Noem\u2019s Prestige Project Chokes on Its Own Price Tag"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida\u2019s most expensive swamp pit is closing its gates. The Trump administration is quietly trying to shut down the Everglades camp that Kristi Noem celebrated only months ago as the model for a nationwide network of deportation prisons. The official reason - too expensive. The irony almost writes itself, because the very woman who once sold the place as a \u201ccost saving measure\u201d is now watching from a distance as her monument suffocates under its own bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One million dollars per day. That is how much the first state operated deportation camp in the United States consumes, a favorite project of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Calculated across a full year, the total reaches roughly 450 million dollars, and Florida is still waiting for the promised reimbursement from Washington. Federal money is arriving slowly, if at all. In April, nearly 1,400 people were being held inside the camp, two thirds of them without any criminal conviction whatsoever. Locked up because they could be locked up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n