ICE Detention Center Is a Sin Against Nature
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"They Brush Their Teeth Where They Poop": Rep. Wasserman Schultz Says Everglades ICE Facility an "Internment Camp"Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz condemns the Everglades ICE facility after a staged tour with colleagues, describing it as an internment camp. She points out the inhumane conditions, with detainees kept in cramped cages—32 per unit—where they have to brush their teeth in unsanitary spaces.
Nazi comparisons surge in response to aggressive immigrant detention and enforcement policies, as do rebukes that such language trivializes the Holocaust.
The meeting will address a proposal for corrections officers to transport ICE detainees from the Orange County Jail to immigration facilities, including “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Everglades. Elected officials and immigration rights advocates are planning to speak about Orange County’s involvement with ICE.
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The county is looking at modifying another agreement related to housing undocumented immigrants at its correctional facility
History will judge DeSantis’ Hispanic internment camp as harshly as it has FDR’s Japanese internment camps,” writes the former executive director of the ACLU of Florida.
Two weeks after President Donald Trump toured the new detention facility in South Florida swampland, hundreds of immigrants, many of whom have never committed a crime, are suffering in hellish conditions.
Conservation groups warned government agencies in a legal filing today that they’re breaking the law by failing to protect the Big Cypress National Preserve from the increasingly destructive effects of the mass detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz.
ICE received additional funding from President Trump's "big, beautiful bill," and Alligator Alcatraz began operating.
"Communities of faith are a powerful and growing force for resistance to injustice," write two readers. Another writes that "we need the help of our governor."
"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin told viewers on Friday that there is a "reckoning" coming for masked ICE agents carrying out deportations across the country.
A spokesperson for Mayor Daniella Levine Cava says the updated agreement is required by Florida law. An advocacy group disagrees.