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Over the last few weeks, a massive tent city has risen at the Orange County base — about 25 miles southeast of downtown L.A.

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One involves a tent city in the desert that hides a portal to an extrajudicial jail for his enemies, both interstellar and domestic.

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The facility, dubbed “Alligator Auschwitz” by critics, is a 3,000-bed tent city and prison in the Everglades.

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Tent City during the 'Year of the Mud' of 1997.

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Some were being carried away on stretchers, as ambulances zipped in and out of the sprawling tent city set up for the event.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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