No Concentration Camp In The Everglades: Artists Against Alligator Auschwitz
President Donald Trump and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem joined Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state leaders on Tuesday July 1, 2025, for the opening of the immigrant “detention facility” (concentration camp) at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in the Florida Everglades. Dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier and more properly referred to as Alligator Auschwitz by people with a moral compass (originating on Bluesky).
In response to these grave human rights violations, The Catalyst began a flash submission campaign for artwork and writing. Publishing of works opposed to this facility began July 4th, 2025—deliberately coinciding with Independence Day in the United States—a federal holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Those who question and seek to disrupt the ideology of American Exceptionalism at the expense of Black and Brown lives globally can still submit their work to this campaign.
"No concentration camp in the everglades", Digital Photograph, 2025.