People held at the brand new Florida immigration detention center that officials have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” say worms turn up in the food, toilets don’t flush and floors flood with fecal waste.

At the brand new Everglades immigration detention center that officials have dubbed “ Alligator Alcatraz,” people held there say worms turn up in the food. Toilets don’t flush, flooding floors with fecal waste, and mosquitoes and other insects are everywhere.

Inside the compound’s large white tents, rows of bunkbeds are surrounded by chain-link cages. Detainees are said to go days without showering or getting prescription medicine, and they are only able to speak by phone to lawyers and loved ones. At times the air conditioners abruptly shut off in the sweltering heat.

Days after Donald Trump toured it, attorneys, advocates, detainees and their relatives are speaking out about the makeshift facility, which Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration raced to build on an isolated airstrip surrounded by swampland. Detainees began arriving July 2.

  • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago
    1. More protesting, yesterday. The “no kings” protest would have been half-decent if they were a start, but as a one-off thing it is more than pathetic.
    2. Political organization parallel to the neutered DNC to push the envelope beyond mildly worded letters and twitter clapbacks.
    3. When the feds come to perform violent unconstitutional acts in your neighborhood, there is a proper response other than “shut the blinds and cower in fear”. Unfortunately the moderators of this instance will delete my message if I propose it.
    • ski11erboi@lemmy.world
      1·
      19 hours ago

      You guys are aware that the no kings protests weren’t a one off and the next one is scheduled for this Thursday July 17 right? I hate how this information doesn’t seem to be reaching people. We’ve got to work on spreading the word.

      • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        16 hours ago

        I’m not American so I won’t involve myself in the organization of your protests.

        But from experience when shit hits the fan at even a third of that magnitude, you’re supposed to be flooding the streets every Saturday. Don’t set up 15 committees for a bimonthly thing that people will forget about. Make it unforgettable because it’s next Saturday, every week.

    • andros_rex@lemmy.world
      17·
      3 days ago

      There was a “code blue” in Oklahoma and Texas today because someone shot a cop at a detention facility. People are doing shit, the media isn’t covering it.