Lawmakers to tour 'Alligator Alcatraz
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A Cuban musician who says he's a lawful permanent resident detailed inhumane and unsanitary conditions at "Alligator Alcatraz."
A man claiming to be an Alligator Alcatraz worker says he was fired after he started posting videos from the site on social media.
The mocking of immigrant detainees harks back to “the worst parts of our history” when similar jokes and tropes, such as “gator bait,” were used to dehumanize Black people and desensitize people to the harm and violence inflicted upon them, says ACLU Florida Executive Director Bacardi Jackson.
The joke's on anyone who is disturbed enough to want a tour of Florida's new horror show. The Trump administration recently launched “ Alligator Alcatraz, ” a migrant detention center based in Florida whose name references the region’s native population of scaly reptilians.
The narrative is that only violent criminals are being sent to Alligator Alcatraz,” attorney Phillip Arroyo said. “We don’t know why [he was sent there] because he has legal status.”
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“There is no water here to bathe,” Leamsy said. “They give you food only once a day, food that even has worms in it.” The musician, whose real name is Leamsy Izquierdo, said the detention center is plagued by mosquitoes “the size of elephants and that the lights in the facility are left on 24 hours a day.
Haiti's storied Hotel Oloffson, a favorite haunt of writers and artists that survived dictatorship, coups and a devastating earthquake and was immortalized in novelist Graham Greene's "The Comedians," is no more, writes Haiti correspondent Jacqueline Charles.