Deep in the hazardous and ecologically fragile Everglades, hundreds of migrants are confined in cages in a makeshift tent detention facility Florida’s Republican governor calls “safe and secure” and Democratic lawmakers call “inhumane.”

Two days after filing a lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for being “unlawfully denied entry” to inspect conditions at the facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” members of Congress and state representatives were given a limited tour Saturday to inspect conditions after calling the lack of access a “deliberate obstruction meant to hide what’s really happening behind those gates,” according to a joint statement from lawmakers.

They said they heard detainees shouting for help and crying out “libertad”— Spanish for “freedom” — amid sweltering heat, bug infestations and meager meals.

  • foggy@lemmy.world
    1011·
    3 days ago

    This is what the lawmakers saw after being denied entry.

    These are concentration camps.

    We didn’t know what was going on at Auschwitz until late '44. Very end of the war.

    There are sick fucks excited about these camps, and they are in there commiting or ready to commit state ordained crimes against humanity. Americans, on American soil, to Americans.

    • Ann Archy@lemmy.world
      26·
      2 days ago

      ICE got $100 billion by 2029.

      Get your fucking guns locked and loaded, fascism has finally arrived in America.

      We pissed on the legacy of the fighters of WW2, and hey, whaddayaknow, let the infection grow back and you’ll have to fight it again.

      It’s on domestic soil this time, very convenient, you won’t have to invade a country on the other side of the fucking planet for once but get to wage war on your home turf!

    • Wrufieotnak@feddit.org
      1·
      2 days ago

      I’m sure you don’t mean it that way, but your last sentence implies it would be better if your fellow Americans would be doing it somewhere else to somebody else. Or that you think Americans could never do such a thing… Let’s just say there is a big enough list of places, where Americans did exactly this kind of crimes against humanity to brown people *cough* Abu Ghraib

      So I am not exactly surprised that now the fascists came home, after America didn’t really stop their own elsewhere.