“Alligator Alcatraz” is the insulting name Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has given the inhumane detention center he has erected within the Everglades to accommodate immigrants rounded up within the Trump administration’s draconian assault on allegedly undocumented individuals residing in the US.
Removed from being stuffed with the harmful criminals President Donald Trump claims are the goal of his harsh immigration coverage, the individuals being held with out due course of for an undetermined amount of time in the swampy hellhole are simply unfortunate people who acquired caught up within the nationwide sweep by Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers. The identical is true concerning all the opposite individuals all through the nation whose lives are being ripped aside for the sake of craven jingoism and politics.
When Individuals look again on this era, the therapy of those immigrants — most of whom are taxpaying employees, a lot of whom have been within the U.S. for years — could also be ranked among the many most shameful episodes within the republic’s historical past, proper up there with the incarceration of Japanese Individuals throughout World Struggle II, the genocide in opposition to Indigenous tribes and the horrors of slavery and Jim Crow.
This ethical and authorized outrage is going on proper earlier than our eyes. The query is — this time — what’s going to we do to cease it?
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