“‘Alligator Alcatraz’ is a concentration camp”
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- Alligator Alcatraz:
This article by Melissa Gira Grant manages to capture how terrible the construction of a concentration camp in Florida for immigrants is on multiple fronts.
Dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” by Republican officials because of the predators living in the surrounding swampland, it has been built to cage thousands of people rounded up by ICE and allied law enforcement agencies as part of President Trump’s mass deportations. “‘Alligator Alcatraz’ is a concentration camp,” Andrea Pitzer, author of One Long Night, a history of concentration camps, said on Tuesday.
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Trump’s “immigration czar,” who was the face of the mass deportation plan long before Trump returned to the White House. “No one’s off the table,” Homan said at the Republican National Convention last summer. “The bottom line is: Every illegal alien is a criminal. They enter the country in violation of federal law. It’s a crime to enter this country illegally.” Every immigrant—every person the Trump administration said was an immigrant—was a target from the beginning.
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Outside the concentration camp, when the storm hit, the protesters were still there. Some had been there for days. No one can say, years from now, that nobody knew about the camp, or that no one pushed back.
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— Via Melissa Gira Grant, The Grand Opening of an American Concentration Camp