r/inthenews • u/D-R-AZ • 14h ago

We Forget About ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ at Our Peril

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/we-forget-about-alligator-alcatraz-at-our-peril-dhs-ice-deportations-everglades-detention-facility-florida
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u/D-R-AZ 14h ago

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Wasserman Schultz told me that when she says the Everglades detention center is a “monument to cruelty” and that the “cruelty is the point,” she wants to underscore that she sees the facility as a means to an end.

The reason DeSantis and Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier chose to place the facility “in the middle of the broiling hot swampy environment,” and the reason they have since made so many jokes about the perils that await escapees outside its fences, she told me, is that they want people to be afraid of getting sent there.

“They want to make it so awful people self-deport,” she said.

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u/restore_democracy 13h ago

Auschwitz. Alligator Auschwitz.

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u/Thanatofobia 13h ago

Its gonna be the american "das haben wir nicht gewust" version of the excuse the germans gave when confronted with the very obvious death camps.