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
    3312·
    17 hours ago

    Americans: “Best we can do is one large-ish peaceful protest a couple months ago. Ah well, we tried everything, and we’re all out of ideas.”

    Thousands of kids died for Americans’ right to bear arms and yet when the Gestapo jumps out of an unmarked van to kidnap their neighbor the most the average American can manage is to duck and film a TikTok. Absolute disgrace of a country.

    “American ideals”? All bark, no bite. You’ll spend billions making horny patriotic Hollywood movies about how Great and Free you are, but a couple masked bitch-ass Nazi shows up to round up the brown people and the whole neighborhood is suddenly like pwease don’t huwt me mistaw officaw, wight this way, also pwease fuck my wife.

    Your country disgusts me. Not so much because 30 % of y’all are actual Nazis. But because virtually everyone else is a complete coward about it.

      • OutlierBlue@lemmy.caEnglish
        224·
        16 hours ago

        Actual protest. Not just walking around with a sign.

        • Organize
        • Create civil disturbances. Obstruct roads
        • Dump manure, garbage, sand to block their activities
        • Team up to form walls of people to block ICE or police
        • Organize
        • Sabotage their vehicles and equipment to prevent them kidnapping people

        But most importantly, organize.

        Any of those will be more productive than mocking someone on the internet as a “tough guy” for wanting to improve things. You’d just sit there content with yourself thinking nothing could be done while fascism comes for you.

        • BassTurd@lemmy.world
          13·
          14 hours ago

          I didn’t say nothing could be done. I’m just tired of people saying, “just fix it” like it’s that easy. The comment I replied to had no substance other than, fuck Americans.

          All of what you said is happening all over. Someone shot at ICE agents the other day. People are trying to push back against the kidnappings. There’s an app that people are using to log and track ICE locations. There are protests frequently.

          There are things happening, but the media is not on the side of the people and either don’t cover it or spin it.

      • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
        102·
        17 hours 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.
        • andros_rex@lemmy.world
          16·
          16 hours 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.