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Crossroads with Joshua Philipp

Alligator Alcatraz Model Spreading to New States

Crossroads with Joshua Philipp

The Epoch Times

Government, Education

4.9594 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The Alligator Alcatraz model will soon spread to new states. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has announced five additional Republican governors are now planning to build similar facilities to help streamline deportations.

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and guests and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times. 

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The Alligator Alcatraz model will soon spread to new states.

0:04.7

Online Security Secretary Kristyneung has announced five additional Republican governors

0:09.5

are now planning to build similar facilities in their own states to help streamline deportations.

0:15.0

Now this is amid deportation efforts getting supercharged by the Big Beautiful Bill. In other news, apparently some systems of

0:23.3

the Department of Defense have been managed by engineers in China. And on the note of CCP surveillance,

0:29.7

the regime is also pushing out a brand new type of social surveillance of the Chinese internet.

0:35.9

I'll be talking about these topics and more today.

0:39.2

I'm the Epic Times Senior Investigator reporter,

0:41.2

Joshua Phillip, and you're listening to Crossroads.

0:50.6

Welcome to Crossroads, a show that gives you insights beyond the headlines. And if you want to support our reporting, please hit the like button. It helps go to show out to more people. Now look, alligator Alcatraz is not just going to be some standalone camp. It's going to be a model to replicate. And it's now spreading to other states. Homeland Security Secretary Kristian

1:11.6

Nome, she has officially announced five additional Republican governors. They're planning to build

1:17.9

similar facilities in their own states, presumably without the crocodiles or alligators,

1:23.9

but they want to use these to streamline deportations. And she made these remarks last week to media in Tampa, Florida.

1:30.3

This facility, a thousand-bed facility can continue to be expanded.

1:34.6

We're looking at other locations as well.

1:36.0

We've had several other states that are actually using alligator Alcatraz as a model for how they can partner with us as well.

1:42.4

I'm having ongoing conversations with five other governors

1:45.5

about facilities that they may have.

1:47.5

You know, I haven't asked those governors

1:48.7

if I can share their names,

1:50.4

but announcements will be coming soon.

1:52.2

As you all know, we need to double our capacity

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