People held at the brand new Florida immigration detention center that officials have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” say worms turn up in the food, toilets don’t flush and floors flood with fecal waste.

At the brand new Everglades immigration detention center that officials have dubbed “ Alligator Alcatraz,” people held there say worms turn up in the food. Toilets don’t flush, flooding floors with fecal waste, and mosquitoes and other insects are everywhere.

Inside the compound’s large white tents, rows of bunkbeds are surrounded by chain-link cages. Detainees are said to go days without showering or getting prescription medicine, and they are only able to speak by phone to lawyers and loved ones. At times the air conditioners abruptly shut off in the sweltering heat.

Days after Donald Trump toured it, attorneys, advocates, detainees and their relatives are speaking out about the makeshift facility, which Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration raced to build on an isolated airstrip surrounded by swampland. Detainees began arriving July 2.

  • BassTurd@lemmy.world
    14·
    18 hours ago

    I didn’t say nothing could be done. I’m just tired of people saying, “just fix it” like it’s that easy. The comment I replied to had no substance other than, fuck Americans.

    All of what you said is happening all over. Someone shot at ICE agents the other day. People are trying to push back against the kidnappings. There’s an app that people are using to log and track ICE locations. There are protests frequently.

    There are things happening, but the media is not on the side of the people and either don’t cover it or spin it.