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
Arguing against the comparison diminishes the harm that can come from a modern day concentration camp. If you want the Holocaust to stay in the history books and not find their way back into the news, youād compare the two without hesitation. If youāre so familiar with the process, then youād be screaming at every turn about what is obviously happening. If we canāt make the comparison between this camp and Auschwitz until we are gassing Latinos in America, then it is too late to stop it.
The argument over the minute details and terminology being not exactly the same is so brutally insane. I canāt even wrap my head around it honestly.