Ben Kissel

They want to break you.

They want you to run out of lawyer money.

Of course.

They want you to give up your immigration claims so they can send you back to whatever country they think you should go back to.

Administrative disappearances demoralize the families and detainees with no remorse.

Yeah.

And they overload it and they do it to make you emotional and sound fucking crazy.

That's why I'm glad I got to sit down and research this and talk to people and write it all down in a row so I could fucking put it all together.

Because I knew it was bad down there, but I didn't know it was like this.

Yes.

All right.

So after all that, OK, now there's the environmental impact, which is obviously something I care a lot about.

I started following the work of Betty Osceola.

She's a leader amongst the Miccosukee tribe and she lives in and the Miccosukee tribe lives in and around Big Cypress.

Big Cypress also isn't technically in the Everglades, but it's like across the street.

OK, the Miccosukee people have been in Big Cypress since the early 1700s.

Betty is worried about many aspects of tribal privacy, as well as the potential for environmental disaster.

The Miccosukee people live less than a half a mile from Alligator Pelican.

And there are cameras pointing from the facility at their land and homes.

The cameras are pointed towards their ceremonial grounds where they hold private ceremonies.