5 biting editorial cartoons about 'Alligator Alcatraz'

Artists take on dangerous green things, historical precedent, and more

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This cartoon is set outside near a barbed-wire fence with a sign that reads “Alligator Alcatraz: Migrant Detention Center.” Two alligators look worried as they stare through the fence at the Statue of Liberty. One alligator says to the other, “ICE did warn that there would be big, green dangerous things on the other side of the fence.”

(Image credit: Joe Heller / Copyright 2025 Hellertoon.com)

This editorial cartoon is titled “Alligator Auschwitz”. It depicts the front gates of a detention center in Florida. Alligators are nearby and a sign on the foreboding fence reads, “Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport operated by ICE.” Above the front gates are the words, “Arbeit Macht Frei.”

(Image credit: Pat Byrnes / Copyright 2025 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.)

This political cartoon depicts a man walking in Florida. He wears a shirt that reads, “GO Gators. The school not the prison guards.”

(Image credit: Dana Summers / Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency)

This cartoon is set outside a regal looking mansion, with a stone fountain and swimming pool. A worker is mowing the lawn. One door has been boarded up and labeled “Immigration Reform.” Two voices come from inside the mansion. One says, “Look! He missed a spot!” The other responds, “Criminal! Send him to alligator Alcatraz.”

(Image credit: Bill Day / Copyright 2025 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.)

In this political cartoon, an alligator sits in a chair reading a newspaper next to another chair in which sits a snake with two fangs. The alligator says, “I hear they’re hiring at alligator alcatraz.” The snake responds, “Sweet!”

(Image credit: Dick Wright / Copyright 2025 Cagle Cartoons, Inc.)

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