Editor's note: The little-used airstrip in the Everglades that the state is using to build a detention center for immigrants, dubbed " Alligator Alcatraz ," is part of a storied history involving Palm Beach County at one point.

German culture and the German language were virtually erased from American society almost overnight — sauerkraut was rebranded as “Liberty cabbage,” seriously — and as historian Matthew Stibbe writes, the “enemy alien hysteria” of the war years fed right into the Red Scare immediately afterward:

On Sunday, two men stood in front of Alligator Alcatraz to show support for the detention center. One held a sign that read, “Welcome to Paradise. Don’t feed the animals.” T

This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.