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Jilly_in_VA

(13,798 posts)
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 12:15 PM Jul 2025

GATOR GITMO: Horrific Conditions Alleged At Florida Facility

Detainees at a remote immigration detention facility in the Florida Everglades say there’s no water for bathing, bright lights that never turn off, and massive mosquitoes everywhere, according to multiple news reports.

The detention site, which Republicans have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” was hastily constructed in recent weeks and is touted by the Trump administration as a hyper-secure facility surrounded by alligators and snakes.

Reports from detainees and their family members detail a facility with abysmal living conditions and little access to counsel.

“There’s over 400 people here. There’s no water to take a bath, it’s been four days since I’ve taken a bath,” Leamsy La Figura, a Cuban musician and detainee who faces charges of aggravated assault, told CBS News Miami.

Multiple women similarly told The Miami Herald that their husbands, who are detainees at the facility, couldn’t shower for multiple days. Two women told the publication that there wasn’t water to flush the toilets when their husbands first arrived.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/everglades-immigration-detention-conditions_n_686debd1e4b07e11dd99a514

Ah, but the cruelty is the point, isn't it?

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dutch777

(4,875 posts)
6. Mostly for show....to scare/encourage others to self deport because ICE can't get it done any other way.
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 12:49 PM
Jul 2025

And red meat for the base.

GusBob

(8,111 posts)
4. When the revolution comes, and it will
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 12:38 PM
Jul 2025

There will be some formerly well-heeled folks living there

Jilly_in_VA

(13,798 posts)
5. I wouldn't do that
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 12:42 PM
Jul 2025

not even to them. Leavenworth, yesm or Marion, IL, but not this. That place should be torn down and the remains erased.

hlthe2b

(112,794 posts)
7. South Fl residents may likewise pay the price as these poor souls become the "perfect" hosts for
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 12:57 PM
Jul 2025

mosquito-borne disease, which will not remain confined to posing a risk to nearby Miccosukee Indians but will reproduce madly, propagate infection, and pretty soon, guess what guys? Malaria, Dengue, Eastern Equine Encephalitis, West Nile Virus, and that's but a start. Not to mention the enteric disease they will set up with this lack of hygiene and HEAT.

This is beyond criminal. These are crimes against humanity. Maybe we will live long enough to see some of the responsible brought before the Hague--as they surely should.

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