Canadian living in Florida detained by ICE, sent to infamous ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

Nothing says “secure borders” like detaining a Canadian in Florida and shipping them to Alligator Alcatraz. This is absurd. At minimum, people should be contacting their reps and local media to spotlight this mess.

Concentration Camps are evil. If this isn’t something you immediately agree with, then you are actively choosing to side with evil.

So they're putting people in concentration camps and giving them "*alien numbers*" to define them, neat. I wonder how long until theres a special little badge to identify the people deemed illegal

Meanwhile, the President weasles out of paying his income taxes.

Remember they have the funding to give everyone a one way bus ticket and $25,000 USD and it would still be cheaper than 60 days in detention. I repeat they could give them a luxurious spa trip and separate bedrooms and bathrooms like Swedish prisons. But they chose, checks notes, worse than a dog kennel. When I board my dogs they get better treatment. The dehumanizing level of treatment is so disgusting. F*** Stephen miller

Wonder who his American family voted for?

The US is making itself a pariah. Trump and his diehards thought that the power that the US has had on the international stage was because the US has a big, scary military and $$ that it could use to push people around. They forgot that a lot of our power came from partnerships, mutual respect, and making fair deals that truly benefited all - and we were able to use our power to leverage things for the US. It's like toxic masculinity is making our policy and ruining our international relationships the same way it ruins marriages. Up next will be JD Vance with divorced dad energy.

They are operating this facility without official approval. A federal court ordered it shutdown, but a state court appealed it and they are now in litigation. Reasons are it is too close to nearby tribal land, as well as being built on environmentally protected everglades. It was built on an incomplete runway. Why was it incomplete? It's too close to nearby tribal land, as well as environmentally protected Everglades. THE EXACT SAME REASON THE CONCENTRATION CAMP WAS RULED ILLEGAL Good ole Florida. Nothing changes. I'll never visit there. Ever.

They charged him with a felony while he was on a payment plan for back taxes? He had a PO for that? F*** Alligator Alcatraz and all that but seems like there's some missing information. Like why he had a probation officer. 

The lack of Canadian snowbirds across the south had crushed the local economies

The United States is a horror movie.

Maybe if ICE looked hard enough, they'd find the other 4 Canadians who still want to live in the US.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, he was forced to shutter his smoothie shop in Port Charlotte, Fla. During that time, Dixon says he fell behind more than US$30,000 in unpaid taxes. In 2022, he pleaded “no contest” to tax evasion and agreed to a monthly repayment plan. Over the past three years, Dixon says he has paid back two-thirds of the amount but still owes the U.S. government approximately $12,000. So they arrested him for the balance $1,200? Why not serve him a notice or a warning of some kind? This feels so heavy handed.

Keep destroying your tourism business Floridumb. 

If I was Mr. Dixon and got jumped by ICE at a random probation hearing, I sure as hell wouldn't pay that last 12k back to the bastards that deported and banned me for life for no reason. All restaurant owners got wrecked by Covid, and Mr. Dixon had already paid back half of that 30k total, which is itself a laughable sum to the IRS

The Trump admin has deported the fewest # of people per year than the last 5 Presidents, but he's "detained" the most...he and his corrupt cronies like Stephen Miller are making their nut off of no bid private prison contracts and get paid per detainee, per day.

Theres a reason normal folks stay out of that prolasped a*** cesspool. That states dumb af, just like its residents and politicians. Cant wait until the ocean takes it back.

This is one of the more disgusting, inhumane things I've read about yet. Did the United States not offer stimulus loans for small businesses that were struggling in those first months/years of COVID that they could gradually pay back? Wouldn't something like that have avoided this man getting hit with a criminal charge? Is it even reasonable that he was criminally charged with tax evasion in this case? Did this happen only because he was Canadian? What is wrong with the United States? The fact that ICE ripped this man away from his home of two decades, and an entire family he's clearly built there, is beyond cruel and unusual. No wonder the world is turning its back on the USA. Good grief. I had once thought retiring to upstate New York and starting up a small cottage artisan business in the Catskills would be a nice idea, but I think I'll find a spot in the Maritimes instead. Insanity.

The US is telling the world they don't need or want anyone foreign - (or domestic if the wrong colour). Ignore this at your peril.

Why would anyone visit this shit country now, unless they've been living underground for the past 10 years. I dont care if I need to for my job, I need hazard pay or find my replacement..

What a dangerous looking guy. Real thug. Worst of the worst. /s F****** disgraceful.

I mean dude didn't pay the tax man but the cloak and dagger trick meeting with his probation officer was probably unnecessary and a huge waste of government funds. But, then cruelty is the point here and we have to keep adding assets into the private prisons.

This is what you get when fanatics manage to seize the reins. You saw it in Afghanistan, when the Taliban regained control thanks to... who was that again? His name escapes me. All norms go out of the window. Everything becomes about satisfying the fetishes of the people in charge.

What a f****** waste of resources destroying a family for no tangible benefit, rational reason or ethical foundation whatsoever.

Arresting grandfathers working as DoorDash drivers. Good job, America!

The worst of the worst.

He doesn’t have to pay back the remaining $12k now! Btw there’s a diff between tax evasion and falling behind in paying your taxes.

Err how had he defrauded the US govt of anything if he had paid most of it back and was still paying it back. So the US paid money to detain him, money to deport him and now won't get the remaining taxes owed. This is the very definition of govt waste.

I had no idea that it was actually called "Alligator Alcatraz", I thought that was just a nickname like "Obamacare" is for the ACA - but there's a sign and everything.

Quote from article: “Under American immigration law, defrauding the government of more than $10,000 in revenue is considered “an aggravated felony.”

Glad they are keeping our Office Depots safe from this extremely dangerous looking immigrant.

F*** Steven Miller the Nazi

Love all these terrible 'dangerous' criminals ICE is rounding up. So essential. So much of a good investment. 🙄 Another day and we're one step closer to becoming North Korea except white and Christian.

Thd shit has been going on over a year now. This guy was hiding behind white privilege, thinking that he was one of the ‘good ones’ the Gestapo wouldn’t touch. Attention Canadians: America considers you their enemy regardless of your skin color. You are putting yourself at risk if you choose to travel or live there. Stop playing useful idiots to these extremists.

I thought they shut down alligator Alcatraz months ago?

I thought Alligator Alcatraz was shut down?

Floridas economy depends on tourism, especially our repeat Canadian guests.  This harms mom and pops, and the working class deeply and serves zero purpose other than cruelty. It also harms big corporations so hopefully they will be sending some of their campaign donations the other direction as tax gifts on no income arent really good for their bottom line.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, he was forced to shutter his smoothie shop in Port Charlotte, Fla. During that time, Dixon says he fell behind more than US$30,000 in unpaid taxes. In 2022, he pleaded “no contest” to tax evasion and agreed to a monthly repayment plan. Over the past three years, Dixon says he has paid back two-thirds of the amount but still owes the U.S. government approximately $12,000. Well he had a terrible lawyer letting him plead to that crime. It is deportable.

Actions and inactions have consequences.