Lawmakers in Florida are raising alarm over documents suggesting immigrant children and pregnant women could be detained at āAlligator Alcatraz.ā
A draft operational plan obtained by the Miami Herald suggests minors could indeed be transported to the controversial site in the Everglades. The 35-page undated document details protocols to āseparate minors from unrelated adultsā and to provide āsnacks and waterā to minors, pregnant women and detainees with medical conditions during transport.
āThe State of Florida is planning to send pregnant women and children to the āAlligator Alcatrazā detention camp,ā wrote State Senator Carlos Guillermo Smith on social media. āThis is totally un-American. We cannot be silent.ā
Thatās what I guess gets me. Of course we want to protect those that are even more at risk, but why does it take it going that far to talk about the fact that there is risk for anyone being held under such conditions?