Deep in Florida’s swampland, a hastily constructed makeshift immigration detention site was just built — and it’s so cruel and so dangerous that it’s being called “Alligator Alcatraz.”
We are tremendously concerned about reports of unspeakable and inhumane conditions — swarms of mosquitoes, maggot-infested food, sweltering heat, and lack of medical care or even basic hygiene like showers. Over 30 men are detained in a single cage, with only 3 toilets for them to share.
These are government-sanctioned abuses — and they’re being funded with Floridians’ taxpayer dollars, with the expectation that ICE will pay them back using their new just-passed mega billion dollar slush fund.
Unless we act right now, it could become a model for even more sites like it under Trump’s $150 billion mass deportation expansion.
“Alligator Alcatraz” is a grotesque extension of Trump’s racist, anti-immigrant agenda — designed not for justice, but for suffering. It is terrorizing immigrants who are our neighbors, our coworkers, and our friends — people who came to the U.S. seeking safety and dignity, but instead were unlawfully arrested and locked behind bars.
We must dismantle the mass deportation machine and invest in welcoming communities.
