Flight tracking data appears to show that two military aircraft left the facility this week for Texas and Louisiana.

The Department of Homeland Security views Alligator Alcatraz as a model to be replicated nationwide. Texas, which as of June, already has more ICE detainees than any other state, has positioned itself as a willing partner. Gov. Greg Abbott claimed through a spokesman that the state has offered “4,000 beds for detention.”

The U.S. government is building an immense 5,000-person detention camp in west Texas, government contract announcements said, sharply increasing the Trump administration’s ability to hold detained immigrants amid its ever-growing mass deportation efforts.

The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded a contract to build and run a 5,000-bed tent camp at the Army base in El Paso.

The more you read about Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz and Texas’ disastrous floods, the more you realize what they share in common, for while they’re two wildly different stories, both show how politics and spin have displaced competence and integrity as the driving core of MAGA-era governing.