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 Don’t look away, John.
No charges. No lawyers. No hearings. Just cages in the swamp.
Alligator Alcatraz turned an airfield in the Florida everglades into a concentration camp. This is an unprecedented state-run detention facility that was born out of Trump and his administration’s hatred of immigrants.
According to reports from immigrants who have been detained at the concentration camp by ICE, there’s no running water or sewage system.
People are crammed into literal cages, meals are small and disgusting, the lights are kept on 24/7 so sleep is impossible, people are hungry and opportunities to shower are few and far between. They are completely isolated from loved ones and even lawyers.
Not only is this a concentration camp that is violating people’s human rights, it’s also harming the Florida environment. Environmentalists say the facility has the potential to cause serious harm to sensitive wetlands and endangered species.
The facility will cost the state of Florida $450 million a year to run. So this is where Florida is willing to pour hundreds of millions of dollars. Not into schools, not into healthcare, childcare, or into our communities. Into an environment-destroying detainment camp.
For $450 million a year, Florida could feed every single food-insecure student in the state and STILL have $10 million left over.
This is not new. We have seen this type of bullsh*t before. It is the same system that built slavery, plantations, Jim Crow, then prisons, and now detention centers to criminalize our existence.
Alligator Alcatraz was born out of a system that views our bodies as disposable, separate, and other. Prisons, jails, and the entire prison industrial complex has roots in slavery. Every prison and jail across the country exists to assert dominance, destroy community bonds, and profit off of our bodies.
But we refuse to be silent. And we refuse to let this happen in the dark.
Civil rights lawyers and immigrant justice organizations are fighting back. In the courts. In the streets. In our communities. As of yesterday, construction on this Florida concentration camp is halted due to a federal judge’s order, but it will only last for 14 days.
If you believe in Black liberation, and if you believe that what’s happening in Florida is unacceptable, we need you. Give what you can today.
This is about more than one facility. It is about a system built to punish and disappear our people. But Black resistance has never backed down. From the slave patrols to the modern police state, we have fought to dismantle every structure that denies our dignity, and we will keep fighting until the job is done and all oppressed people are free.
Thank you for being with us in the fight,
Black Lives Matter
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