The calls from Alligator Alcatraz’s first detainees brought distressing news: Toilets that didn’t flush. Temperatures that went from freezing to sweltering. A hospital visit. Giant bugs. And little or no access to showers or toothbrushes, much less confidential calls with attorneys.
The stories, relayed to the Miami Herald by the wives of detainees housed in Florida’s makeshift detention center for migrants in the Everglades, offer the first snapshots of the conditions inside the newly opened facility, which began accepting detainees on July 2. They reveal detainees who are frightened not just about being deported, but also about how they are being treated by the government, which is saying little about what is taking place inside.
“Why would we treat a human like that?” a woman whose Venezuelan husband is housed in Alligator Alcatraz told the Miami Herald. “They come here for a better life. I don’t understand. We are supposed to be the greatest nation under God, but we forget that we’re under God.”
Concentration camp. Cute branding is fascist propaganda.
Stop calling it that.
I agree, Alligator Auschwitz is the best name. I don’t feel comfortable changing the title to that though and the media won’t do otherwise.
You can just say “concentration camp.”
rule #1 of this comm explicitly forbids using anything but the article title as the post submission title so maybe lay off OP?
They’re the only mod.
How’s that?
Better? Not sure I’d bother with the parenthetical. And it is still using the cutesy name… for a concentration camp.
It’s an edited headline, trying to stay on baseline. Idk, sometimes I edit it a lot, but people know what they’re talking about when they use the Alligator Auschwitz original name.
Never again 🤡
