Annisa, Surrounded by snakes and alligators in a swelteringly hot swamp, approximately 900 people have been crammed into a hastily-constructed camp of plastic tents and metal cages in the middle of the Florida Everglades. In only 8 days, authorities set up a camp that currently can hold around 3,000 humans — and with the intention of housing even more in the upcoming weeks and months.
While Trump and his cronies laugh about having created 'Alligator Alcatraz,' very real human beings have been shoved into facilities with maggots in their sparse food, intense overheating, and so few showers, people have to wake up at 3am to get the chance to bathe — or risk going another week without being clean.
The camp's tents each have multiple cages, with 32 humans locked in per cage. Each cage has 3 open-air toilet-sink combination units, in which the drinking water emerges from a faucet on the back of the toilet's tank. There is no privacy or shielding. To drink water, you must first wait for one of the other 32 individuals to finish using the toilet. Even worse: many of the toilets won't flush, leading to serious sanitation issues.
And that's just what we actually know. Because Florida and ICE have been trying to prevent lawmakers from learning more. First, they blocked members of Congress from touring the facilities at all. Then, once lawmakers filed a lawsuit, authorities finally allowed them in — but only into the sections that are currently empty and awaiting more bodies to fill them. Lawmakers weren't even allowed to see the so-called "medical" section at all.
This is not justice. This is not humane. This is inconceivable and morally unjustifiable. We must not sit quietly while this situation escalates. Sign the petition to demand the U.S. federal government and Florida governments shut down Alligator Alcatraz immediately! |
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