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.
By not engaging with them. No, I’m not going to try and “change their minds”, because I consider them to be a lost cause. I learned this years ago as a vegan.
For sake of mental health, it’s best to just move on and engage with those who are more receptive and show a shred of humanity.
Music brought a black man and a Klan member together. That kinda thing happened hundreds of times.
It’s too tall an order for almost any mortal. Want to believe it’s true, though, and not impossible.
Sure, that’s definitely an option that would be healthier/easier for me personally, but can you really disengage when people in government build concentration camps and secret police force? I’m not even American or in America and it’s just overwhelming…
My point is that it is not productive to engage in people who have no empathy, because it won’t actually accomplish anything. It is a wasted effort.
It’s sort of along the lines of the Serenity Prayer. They fall under the “things I cannot change.”
You can if you’d arm up
Yeah, then what, Buffalo Bill? Shoot at what, who?