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
A white CANADIAN male was recently released from one of the centres, he did not say which one.
His stories included people screaming horribly, eating rotten food, some with bugs in it or mould on it. No doctors, lawyers, or official of any kind. Barely enough water to drink, not always crystals clear.
He was swept up in an ICE raid, and even with a passport no one would look at it. 90 days without help. He condemned the whole process. But what could he do? Absolutely nothing! Imagine if he had been a person of colour?
LikeLike
Not in million years would I have believed we would see the depths of depravity the Republicans have taken into. And millions of words have been spilt try to explain it, but I still cannot make out the bottom. If the Democrats ever take back the government, what should they do about this? Chances are not much will be done, because the margin of power will be too close. But if the margin were higher, should they expend energy on revenge, which I would like to see, or should they try to govern for the benefit everyone, even the ungrateful?
LikeLike