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
I for one am glad that at least some on the right are still reachable on this matter.
But if they were okay with subjecting men they deem less than to this, itās still rather alarming, since itās not that much of a leap to then pushing pregnant women and children into the same conditions, if they are considered part of the same group.