Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump Plan Shut Down by Federal Judge in Florida?!?

Episode Date: August 8, 2025

Michael Popok looks at the ways the Trump Administration is trying to normalize and render harmless and childish, the use of concentration camps to house human beings, by giving them cartoonish cutesy names like Alligator Alcatraz and Speedway Slammer, while targeting hard working immigrants along the way. Popok also updates our audience on a new Federal Court ruling stopping the further construction of the Everglades, Florida ICE detention center as well. Go to https://CookUnity.com/legalaffree for Free Premium Meals for Life! Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We can't allow the Trump administration to try to use cute names and cartoons to wallpaper over depraved immigration policy. We've seen it with the Alligator Alcatraz. That's the official name of this inhumane detention center concentration camp in the middle of the Everglades in Florida. I'm a touch on new developments there, including a new order, stopping further construction of it. And now we've got the announcement that Christy Nome announced that there's going to be a Speedway slammer. 75 miles from Indianapolis, the Indianapolis Speedway, and you, and, okay, because I guess they want to make it cute, make it coloring book cute for kids, they used a AI-generated car, we'll put a picture of it here, an AI-generated indie car, covered with ICE logos, and the number five, the number five car. The only problem is, and we caught it, number five is driven by the only Mexican driver in the indie car series right now. second place, Patto Award from Monterey, Mexico. You think that was random, that he just randomly picked the only Mexican driver in the

indie race? I don't think so. Let me give you the two stories here together as one, as we call out the Trump administration every day, every way. You're here on the Midas Touch Network. Hit the free subscribe button. If you can to support us, come over to Legal AF YouTube channel and do the exact same thing. I'm Michael Popak.

Let's get to it. Alligator, Alcatraz is the name I'm not calling it that. Now, two groups have joined together, the Miccosukee tribe, powerful, powerful tribe of Native Americans here in Florida, along with the Seminole tribe, and they see the Everglades as sacred ground, their words, sacred and holy ground for the Seminoles and for Florida. From an environmental standpoint, the Everglades, the tributaries, the wetlands, Lake Okeechobee is what keeps Florida from shriveling up in the heat and disappearing. I mean, let's be honest, it would just spontaneously combust if it didn't have the waterways and the Everglades and the Lake Okeechobee feeding and all that. And a lot of money, billions and billions of dollars,

federal money included, has gone into the restoration of the Everglades, right? To open up, it's like Rotor-Ruter, to open up blocks, to make sure there were no dams, to make sure water is flowing properly in the right direction. It is something that if you ever get out there, there's a there's a there's a it's hot as heck in the summer but there's a pristine beauty about it to be somewhere in the everglades i've done some hiking and biking in there but what i haven't done is been penned up in a concentration camp with no air conditioning in the middle of the summer with

no hurricane plan with mosquitoes and alligators and that's what's going on there so there's two lawsuits about alligator alcatraz sorry about the ice detention center in the everglades one is going to have a hearing on the 18th of august about the underlying human rights violations, the civil rights violations, the constitutional violations, cruel and unusual punishment and all about operating that facility where more than a thousand people, give or take, a hundred or two that may have been removed already, are being housed. Again, no air conditioning, improper sanitation, and all that. This lawsuit I'm telling you about now with Judge Williams is about the environmental impact that was never properly assessed by sticking a concentration camp in the

middle of the Everglades. So the Friends of the Everglades and the Miccosukee tribe got together and filed the suit. And now Judge Williams has put a stop, at least for the next two weeks to the further construction to build three or four thousand more beds in the Everglades. You may remember Judge Williams, I talked about her just a few weeks ago. She was the judge and it was affirmed by the United States Supreme Court that ruled that Florida could not create its own body of criminal immigration law. They were starting criminal anybody, state crime if you came into the state in an undocumented status. Okay. We have a concept, I guess the attorney general for Florida fell asleep in class,

in constitutional law class during this, but we have a concept called preemption and ouster. When the federal government and Congress has spoken in a certain area and a certain subject matter, they reigns supreme. And you can't regulate as a state that same area. Now, the other areas that the feds are not regulating, that's all you, states, under federalism and the Tenth Amendment. You ever have a meal that just stays with you? Like, for me, it was this spicy citrus

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Part of its criminal, part of it's civil, but we have a code. And Florida can't make up its own, just like the other 49 states can't do it. So Judge Williams struck it down and said nobody can be arrested under this unconstitutional statute while it's up on appeal. Well, the Attorney General for Florida, Entmire, Mr. Entmire, didn't like that. So he gave out an order to his underlings to people in different departments. and agencies and law enforcement in Florida and said, well, that's what the judge ruled. However, I don't really have the power

to tell you what to do. Judge found out about that, found Entmire in contempt, which is what she was supposed to do. And I think 26 or 27 people were arrested under this unconstitutional law. I think they've been released. Supreme Court gets a hold of it,

U.S. Supreme Court, and in a rare ruling that we can get behind ruled in favor of Judge Williams that Florida can't create its own criminal immigration law. So that's Judge Williams. You know, that's pretty, that's pretty heady stuff, right? You get affirmed by the United States Supreme Court. So she just issued that injunction about the further construction on environmental grounds until all of the briefing is in, but she thinks more likely than not that the Miccosukees and the friends, the Florida Everglades are going to win that case, which would keep

it to, now she has not stopped to be fair, to be, you know, to be straightforward. She has not stop the operation of alligator alcatraz sorry the immigration attention center in in uh in the everglades see my point once they start using these these little catchy names it completely divorces the inhumanity of what's going on because now we're talking about disney figures so now let me move on to the indianapolis 500 and the indianapolis motor speedway people that know me know that i'm a i'm a car buff i've raced cars myself at at Homestead Motor Speedway, not Indy cars, but I've raised the cars. And I like cars. And I generally like motorsport.

So I was beside myself, along with the people, the family that owns the Indianapolis Speedway, when ICE and Christy Noem and Donald Trump decided to come up with another cutie cutie, again, it's like it would be the equivalent of when we, as a scar on our history, put Japanese Americans and German Americans in concentration camps during World War II in internment camps, if we gave them cutesy names. I don't know, like, you know, chop suey concentration camp, you know, something both racist and, you know, offensive and cartoonish, you know, or the, or the, the kraut cage for the Germans, right?

Now, only in Trump world, in Trumplandia would you think to call it the, um, I was called it the Speedy Speedway. Would you call it, you know, what they're calling it related to the Indianapolis 500 and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway? So they're using this inappropriate speedway slammer with a artificially created, an AI created, CGI created, Indian car. And they got to use Paddo Awards number. The only, they picked the only Mexican or fives, Christy Nome's favorite number. And so the family that owns the Indianapolis Motor Speedway said, we don't like people using our intellectual property without our permission and the government

fought back, oh, this is ridiculous or we didn't use your, right? You got Speedway slammer with an indie car. I don't know how that's not a violation of, and if I were them, I bring the suit. Now they interview Padua Award. He was just sort of, you know, disappointed. And like, why, why am I being picked out? Because I'm from Monterey, Mexico, you know? But this is what we're calling out here on Midas Touch.

There is a method to this madness to try to make cartoonish acceptable and normalize things like we're operating concentration camps and putting people in them, sometimes outside without proper heating and cooling. You know. And so it has a cutesy name that the kids. kids can get behind. You know, what are you going to start doing next? Start selling Pokemon stickers and other cards and things, you know, with all the, you know, collect, collect all 10 of the ICE immigration centers. Is that's where we're going? Not on my watch. Not on your watch. And you're watching Legal A.F. and Midas Touch Network. Take a moment. This is the way you support us. Hit the free subscribe button here. Come over to LegalAF, the YouTube channel. Do the

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