A Farmworker Dies and the Horror of Alligator Alcatraz
Have Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump opened a concentration camp
On Thursday, a farmworker died after falling from the roof of a greenhouse during an ICE raid in California. You may not have heard about that because the Trump administration isn’t publicizing the tragedy or apologizing for it. Please don’t let me hear anyone say “He deserved it.”
The farmworker’s name is Jamie Alanis Garcia. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended the ICE raid on the farm and harshly criticized protests against the raid, saying:
Those individuals that were attacking those officers were trying to kill them. . . Let me be clear. You don’t throw rocks at vehicles like that, and you don’t attack them like that, unless you are trying to do harm to them physically and to kill them and to take their life.
If you substitute “The January 6 rioters” for “Those individuals,” Noem’s statement could be a comment that President Trump would disagree with.
But what does the California ICE raid have to do with the Florida detention camp set up in eight days by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis? The answer is that both “events” are evidence that Trump’s border security war is escalating.
Last week, a group of legislators visited Alligator Alcatraz. Legislators, including Florida state Senate Democratic Leader Lori Berman, received a limited tour and were forbidden to speak with detainees. Berman said the tour confirmed concerns about human rights violations and inhumane treatment.
Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) provided additional details:
There were eight cages of 32 detainees on either side, crammed in like sardines. . . It was 83 degrees at the threshold, which is as far as they would let us go inside the tents.
Is Alligator Alcatraz concentration camp? And is it designed to create terror in undocumented migrants—a terror that could prompt many of them to “voluntarily deport?”
The issue of the week.
The issue of the week is human rights.
Alligator Alcatraz is a human rights violation that will be best remembered for its cruelty unless it also becomes a tragedy. Some fear that the hastily built facility is vulnerable to hurricanes and disease.
Will the people responsible for building and operating the camp be held accountable if someone dies?
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Very lame to just 'hope' for no more disasters etc. STOP HOPING and DO SOMETHING ... ANYTHING. These are concentration camps and we are all complicit. IMPEACH HIM!
That pic of the hat being sold on Amazon is another good reason to ditch Amazon. I cancelled everything Amazon and do not miss it at all. That is selling hate for sure...