The Grim Reaper Patch Circulating Among Guards at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

Who is the guard behind the patch? How a patch from his uniform surfaced outside the remote Everglades ICE detention center.

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Outside a remote immigration detention facility in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” an activist was handed something unusual by a departing guard: a patch from his uniform.

The patch shows a large alligator skull with its jaws open wide above a hooded skeleton holding a hatchet. The skeleton, depicted with red eyes and resembling a grim reaper, stands before silhouettes of guard towers and fencing tha…