14. Covers the rapid construction of detention camps without proper oversight—parallels the fictional Alligator Alcatraz.
15. Sengupta, Somini. “The Climate Crisis Is a Migration Crisis.” The New York Times , July 16, 2023. https://nytimes.com.
16. Draws the connection between climate change and migration—echoed in the article’s final section on irony and entrapment.
17. Bazelon, Emily. “Trump and the Machinery of Detention.” The New York Times Magazine , August 18, 2019. https://nytimes.com.
18. Explores the legal and political groundwork Trump laid for immigrant detention centers, including erosion of due process.
19. Scarry, Adam. “Florida’s Right Wing Loves the Swamp.” The Miami Herald , April 2025.
20. Details the performative cruelty in Florida political rhetoric—like selling novelty koozies and mocking detainees—which the article satirizes.
21. Park, Madison. “The Danger of Climate Prisons.” Scientific American , March 2024. https://scientificamerican.com.
22. Examines the growing risks of housing vulnerable populations in flood-prone or climate-unstable regions.
23. Abdo, Melissa. “A Setup for Disaster: The NPCA’s Response to Detention in the Everglades.” National Parks Conservation Association Press Release , February 2025. https://npca.org.
24. Quoted in the article; her statement is used to underscore how environmental scientists frame the camp as catastrophic.
25. 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.”
27. Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism . New York: Harcourt, 1951.
28. Cited indirectly; her concept of statelessness and “administrative murder” underpins the piece’s theme of weather as weapon.
29. Lopez, Ian Haney. Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class . New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
30. Useful for contextualizing Florida’s use of “nature” and criminal tropes to justify inhumane detention practices.