German culture and the German language were virtually erased from American society almost overnight — sauerkraut was rebranded as “Liberty cabbage,” seriously — and as historian Matthew Stibbe writes, the “enemy alien hysteria” of the war years fed right into the Red Scare immediately afterward:

Columnist Steve Bousquet reports on the DeSantis administration’s elaborate efforts to restrict public access to the hastily built immigration detention camp known as “Alligator

A petition demanding the immediate shutdown of Florida's detention site, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," has gained nearly 20,000 signatures.

In the course of this country’s development, our predecessors manifested great virtue, but they were not free from significant moral lapses.

The mocking of immigrant detainees harks back to “the worst parts of our history” when similar jokes and tropes, such as “gator bait,” were used to dehumanize Black people and desensitize people to the harm and violence inflicted upon them, says ACLU Florida Executive Director Bacardi Jackson.

Land in the Everglades once designated to be a jetport, is now being turned into a detention center for migrants and being called Alligator Alcatraz.

The monstrous, recently constructed immigrant detention facility in the Florida Everglades, flippantly dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” literally took on water within a day of President Trump visiting the camp Tuesday to commemorate its planned Wednesday opening.

TheGrio’s Natasha S. Alford warns that MAGA mockery of immigrants echoes America’s violent past: “We have to watch our history.”