
No, this isn’t a German Concentration Camp or a third world prison. This is America–Trump Republican style.
By Madeleine Ngo, Hamed Aleaziz and David Ovalle | The New York Times
WASHINGTON — Alligator Alcatraz, the now-closed state-run immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades, failed to comply with a host of federal detention standards, creating cramped conditions and confining migrants in “small metal enclosures,” according to a new report by the Department of Homeland Security’s independent watchdog.
The report said the use of the enclosures was unprecedented among facilities the watchdog, the department’s Office of Inspector General, has previously inspected and presented “significant risks” to detainees’ health and safety. It focused on the high-profile facility known as Alligator Alcatraz, which came under intense scrutiny before it closed this summer.
The report raised further questions about a facility that became synonymous with the Trump administration’s harsh treatment of immigration detainees. President Donald Trump had joked that the location was in such a remote area that detainees would have to learn “how to run away from an alligator.” It was shuttered after criticism about conditions and cost, and after enduring legal challenges.
Anyone who feels this is what America should do to immigrants, needs mental help. Many of the inmates were not even convicted of a crime. Calling these outrages “calming areas” doesn’t change the fact that they are torture, punishment cells.
There is no depth of depravity that is too low for the Trump Republicans, the masked Gestapo I.C.E. goons, and their immoral followers, with the latter pretending to love God.
Rodger Malcolm Mitchell