He shouted for help. Only the storm answered.
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2. Provides data on past hurricanes in Florida, including frequency, categories, and paths—essential for validating the storm risks described.
2. National Hurricane Center. Tropical Cyclone Climatology. National Weather Service, 2024. https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/climo.
4. Gives statistical likelihood of hurricanes striking specific U.S. regions, including South Florida’s high seasonal risk.
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6. Explains how rising seas and extreme weather disproportionately affect low-lying coastal regions like the Everglades.
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8. Maps low-lying evacuation zones and one-road-in, one-road-out areas such as Collier County, supporting the article’s geography.
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10. Details the hydrology and poor drainage of the Everglades, reinforcing the camp’s vulnerability to long-term flooding.
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14. Covers the rapid construction of detention camps without proper oversight—parallels the fictional Alligator Alcatraz.
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16. Draws the connection between climate change and migration—echoed in the article’s final section on irony and entrapment.
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18. Explores the legal and political groundwork Trump laid for immigrant detention centers, including erosion of due process.
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20. Details the performative cruelty in Florida political rhetoric—like selling novelty koozies and mocking detainees—which the article satirizes.
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22. Examines the growing risks of housing vulnerable populations in flood-prone or climate-unstable regions.
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24. Quoted in the article; her statement is used to underscore how environmental scientists frame the camp as catastrophic.
13. Sassen, Saskia. Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014.
26. Theoretical framework for state-engineered disappearances through systemic neglect and spatial violence—relevant to “selective disappearance.”
14. Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism. New York: Harcourt, 1951.