Hundreds of people who were once detained at the troubled immigration jail in the Florida Everglades, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” have disappeared. Democracy Now! speaks with Shirsho Dasgupta, a Miami Herald reporter who found that, as of late August, about two-thirds of the 1,800 immigrants who were held there in July have gone missing from ICE’s online database, with their families and attorneys unable to locate them. Earlier this month, a federal appeals court ruled the jail could continue to operate despite reports of abuse. “What we’re seeing at Alligator Alcatraz is basically a new model of immigration detention, where a state-run facility is operating as an extrajudicial black site, completely outside of the previous models of immigration detention in this country. And it’s making what was already a terrible system somehow even worse,” says Thomas Kennedy, policy analyst at the Florida Immigrant Coalition.
  • TheObviousSolution@lemmy.caEnglish
    37·
    9 days ago

    Some people learned from the Holocaust not to ever condone it again. Other people learned how to hide crimes against humanity better.

    • cecilkorik@lemmy.caEnglish
      13·
      9 days ago

      Some people thought 1984 was a warning. Other people thought it was an instruction manual. And we put the latter people in charge.

  • weaselsrippedmyflesh@lemmy.ptEnglish
    20·
    9 days ago

    When Biden was President, MAGAts were scrutinizing everything Federal in their country looking for a Deep State conspiracy like someone dumbsplained the X-Files to them, meanwhile the shallow cunts they put in office are just disappearing people and culling the regime’s undesirables, megacorporations are flaunting their influence out in the open, dissenting voices are being silenced publicly, and their Supreme Cheeto is blatantly working for Russian interests, when he’s not moonlighting in an international web of paedophilia. But would you look at that?

    No backlash from the MAGA base, no indignant outcries, no conspiracy theories, the only kool aid being drunk is the one lactating from King Orangutang’s teat and his merry entourage of gaslighting sycophants.

    Their Deep State has finally surfaced, but all their stockpiles of guns are apparently pulling a Chuck Schumer and waiting for the right time, which somehow isn’t quite here, yet. So maybe this was never about freedom, transparency, accountability, it was about being finally enabled by the status quo to exercise their bigotry freely, transparently and without being made accountable for it.

  • frunchEnglish
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    9 days ago

    So it’s reopened?!? What the fuck

    I couldn’t be less proud of this country