Is the Miami Herald familiar with Florida? It’ll be more fun when the pythons and iguanas show up. But, there’s more fun with the article as there is absolutely no first-hand knowledge
Giant bugs, heat and a hospital visit: Inside Alligator Alcatraz’s first days
The calls from Alligator Alcatraz’s first detainees brought distressing news: Toilets that didn’t flush. Temperatures that went from freezing to sweltering. A hospital visit. Giant bugs. And little or no access to showers or toothbrushes, much less confidential calls with attorneys.
The stories, relayed to the Miami Herald by the wives of detainees housed in Florida’s makeshift detention center for migrants in the Everglades, offer the first snapshots of the conditions inside the newly opened facility, which began accepting detainees on July 2. They reveal detainees who are frightened not just about being deported, but also about how they are being treated by the government, which is saying little about what is taking place inside.
So, this is all about what wives of illegal aliens, a goodly chunk of whom are felonious criminals, saying something. Nothing is verified. No first-hand knowledge. Just hearsay from people with an axe to grind because their husbands are in federal custody for criminal and civil violations. This is modern journalism, at least when it’s meant to get Republicans. They should have held a poll to see if Americans actually care.
“Why would we treat a human like that?” a woman whose Venezuelan husband is housed in Alligator Alcatraz told the Miami Herald. “They come here for a better life. I don’t understand. We are supposed to be the greatest nation under God, but we forget that we’re under God.”
They violated federal law by crossing the border, then committed serious crimes. There could be some who were flown in by the Biden regime, then committed serious crimes. They can all avoid being at Alligator Alcatraz by self deporting.
The men, whose identities the Herald is withholding due to their families’ fears that the government will punish them for speaking out, described harsh conditions at the detention center, pitched as a new model for holding migrants ensnared in President Donald Trump’s war on illegal immigration. The state, which intends to eventually house 3,000 or more people at the site, has said the detainees’ descriptions provided to the Herald are “untrue.”
“Bugs and environmental factors are minimized in the facility, restraints are only utilized during transport outside of the detention centers, and visitation arrangements can be made upon request,” said Stephanie Hartman, a spokeswoman for the state Division of Emergency Management, the state agency overseeing the facility’s operations. “All plumbing systems are working and operational.”
Did the three article writers request they be allowed to visit the site prior to writing the article? Nothing in the article says they did.
The women told the Herald that their husbands were unable to shower for several days after arriving. On Sunday, two women said their husbands complained that initially there was no water to flush toilets. All three detainees told their wives that the bugs were getting inside, one of them saying that grasshoppers the size of his hand were springing into the tent and that the biggest mosquitoes he had ever seen were flying over them in their cells.
Um, Florida. This is Florida. People have these in their homes and places of work.
A fourth detainee, Cuban reggaeton artist Leamsy Izquierdo told CBS News and other local media outlets that the lights are on inside the facility 24 hours a day, a detail that was corroborated by a Venezuelan detainee’s wife interviewed by the Herald. Izquierdo was transferred to the Everglades site after landing in Miami-Dade’s Turner Guilford Knight Correction Center on assault and battery charges. He has pleaded not guilty.
No mention that he was arrested for aggravated assault with a firearm and simple assault. He could simply request he be allowed to leave the country. Anyhow, does the Miami Herald realize people in prison face tough conditions, and no one really cares because they are criminals?
Mr teach typed, without supporting evidence:
The imprisoned deserve decent treatment. Even brown people. They deserve due process.
They make it sound like a prison where people get locked up for years. People stay there for days while awaiting transportation. Staying out of there is totally easy: Deport yourself. Getting out of there is even easier: Go home. The only thing that delays your stay is bringing legal challenges to your deportation.
They wrote about bugs, mosquitoes and toilets because as I noted earlier, no one saw any alligators.
The avg daily cost for a detainee in custody is $165 per day. Less than 6% have been convicted of serious charges.
Anne Frank was an illegal immigrant who had her citizenship revoked by a democratically elected government. She was eventually caught and legally deported.
U.S. Representative Garland Hale “Andy” Barr (R-KY) has proposed a Constitutional amendment to end birthright citizenship!!
His Press Release:
It takes 2/3rd Senators and House members, then 75% of the states.
Jay Dee Vance recently gave a speech ranking the levels of citizenship. Citizens whose ancestors fought in the Revolutionary or Civil Wars are more American! People whose families have been in the states longer are more American. Trump’s grandpa Freidrich entered from Bavaria in 1885.
Reminds me of Tent City run by Joe Arpaio. No frills for the illegals on their short stay in Alligator Ally.