Florida has built a new migrant concentration camp deep in the Everglades swamp on a 39-mile airfield — and right off the bat, it's clear that this will be beyond hellish for the innocent people they'll incarcerate there.
Their plans made it seem like they're building a Civil War-era POW camp rather than a facility to hold people who, again, ARE NOT CRIMINALS. "We'll have some light infrastructure, a lot of heavy duty tent facilities, trailer facilities," said Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said. "We don't need to build a lot of brick-and-mortar." The facility has already been flooded by the swamp several times, while prisoners report being given rotting food and packed into cages. "Water has to be trucked into this facility — no working pipes," Democratic Rep. Darren Soto said Saturday. "It makes no sense [that] this is here. Rep. Maxwell Frost was shocked to learn their drinking water comes from the toilet.
Demand Florida close its swamp concentration camp for migrants!
The entire reason the airfield was vacant in the first place is because construction on the project was stopped in 1970 over environmental concerns — but Trump and DeSantis couldn't care less about the creatures and the wilderness of the state that they themselves live in.
In fact, the entire point of putting the camp in the Everglades is the hope that the wildlife will kill them. "You don't need to invest that much in the perimeter. People get out, there's not much waiting for them other than alligators and pythons. Nowhere to go, nowhere to hide," said Uthmeier. This camp is a monstrous crime against humanity and the environment and we cannot allow it to become a reality.
Tell Florida: Close the "Alligator Alcatraz" concentration camp in the Everglades!
