BREAKING: TRUMP’S GREATEST SHAME: 1,200 detainees who were being held by ICE at Alligator Alcatraz have DISAPPEARED, according to a shocking investigation by The Miami Herald. The former detainees have been REMOVED from the government database meant to keep track of them, leaving family members and their legal representatives in the dark as to their current whereabouts. The current location of about 1,200 people, out of the 1,800 who were being held by ICE at Alligator Alcatraz in July, could not be traced according to the Herald. A detainee from Guatamala was “accidently” deported back to his home country according to the report. Moreover, the family of a Cuban detainee was told that he had been transferred to a facility in California, but that facility was unable to locate him. “Around 800 detainees showed no record on ICE’s online database. More than 450 listed no location and only instructed the user to “Call ICE for details” — a vague notation that attorneys said could mean that a detainee is still being processed, in the middle of a transfer between two sites or about to be deported,” the newspaper reported. Many detainees were transferred out of Alligator Alcatraz when a U.S. District Judge ordered the facility to be shuttered in late August, due to the Florida government — which built and operated the American concentration camp — failing to conduct the required environmental reviews. That decision was later reversed by a Federal Appeals Court, leaving the facility open again. The chaos caused by the reversal of the shutdown order has likely played a role in the inability to track the missing detainees. While most ICE detention facilities are managed by the federal government, Alligator Alcatraz is managed by the state of Florida which does not have any systems capable of listing the names of those incarcerated at the swampy and poorly provisioned prison camp. This has led some analysts to speculate that some of the missing detainees could actually still be being held at the notorious facility. However, since only less than 400 people were still being held there by the end of August, that still leaves a sizeable number of detainees unaccounted for, leaving families worried that many of their loved ones may have been illegally deported despite open asylum claims. The Miami Herald quotes the former director of ICE during the Obama administration, John Sandweg, as blaming Alligator Alcatraz’s accelerated build-out for the current inability to track its former occupants. “The way that this was rolled out, that it was stood up overnight … all of that lends itself to mistakes,” Sandweg said. The Trump administration’s incompetence in tracking the people it wishes to deport is shameful, but it’s more likely to be a deliberately cruel feature of its immigration policy than a bug. Everyone who cares about justice and due process should be appalled by this treatment of America’s immigrant population and speak out loudly to pressure the administration to reform its dastardly ways.