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Lawmakers in Florida are raising alarm over documents suggesting immigrant children and pregnant women could be detained at 'Alligator Alcatraz.'

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 "separate minors from unrelated adults" and to provide "snacks and water" to minors, pregnant women and detainees with medical conditions during transport.

"The State of Florida is planning to send pregnant women and children to the 'Alligator Alcatraz' detention camp," wrote State Senator Carlos Guillermo Smith on social media. "This is totally un-American. We cannot be silent."

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[–] pawnfuture@lemmy.world 3 points 53 minutes ago

Things can be immoral without only affecting women and children.

[–] rozodru@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

just call it Alligator Auschwitz.

Of course they're going to send children and pregnant women. Do they think the Nazi Germans were all "you know what? the jew kids and pregnant jew women are too much for this. lets leave them alone." no. You don't gear up for a genocide by picking and choosing those within the group you plan on genociding.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 56 minutes ago

I'm surprised pregnant women arent getting guantanimo to ensure they dont give birth on US soil

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

snacks and water not guaranteed

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 15 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Nobody should be subjected to this

[–] razzazzika@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 hours ago

So the alligators will have bite sized snacks in addition to full size meals.... sorry, my dark humor. It's the only way I cope with these atrocities.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 23 points 14 hours ago

Call it what it is: a concentration camp, a death camp, or perhaps Alligator Auschwitz.

Alcatraz housed convicted felons. This place is housing non-criminals. Immigration is a civil infraction, like a parking ticket. If you ever stole something from the store or got in a fight, you're more of a criminal than these folks.

[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 37 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Call it what it is: Alligator Auschwitz

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone -3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Dont put Ausschwitz so lightly. Thanks

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

You think Auschwitz started out openly with a plan to kill every detainee? German concentration camps were no different than this at the start. Mass cells for a designated group of "outsiders". It was only later that the gas chambers were erected to cull the contained population to make room for more detainees. We are moments away from Auschwitz in America. If you can't see that, you are deluded.

[–] lukaro@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 hour ago

All they have to do is fill it up and wait, hurricane season will take care of the rest of the plan.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 22 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

When trump dies the world will celebrate

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 hours ago

No one mourns the wicked

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 26 points 17 hours ago

It's concentration camp. Why is anyone surprised?

[–] PedroMaldonado@lemmy.world 72 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Its a concentration camp. Don't call it alligatoralcatraz.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 22 points 17 hours ago

Exactly. Call it Alligator Auschwitz.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 23 points 19 hours ago (12 children)

Honestly, how is it any better to send young men there? I'm not wild about sending pregnant women and children there obviously, but...are we indicating that men don't matter?

[–] MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 28 points 17 hours ago

It said pregnant women and children. Which are both vulnerable populations that are more at risk for death from severe heat stress and malnutrition and stress .

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 43 points 21 hours ago

Alligator Auswitz

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 118 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

So they're sending children to death camps already? I thought it would take longer than this

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 52 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

they were already pushing children in concentration camps last trump administration.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

God, how much I despise democrats and their BS ratchet.

[–] pawnfuture@lemmy.world 33 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Based on their laws, if the adverse setting they've placed a pregnant woman in causes a miscarriage, all of the employees are partially responsible for a homicide right? Since life begins at conception right?

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 27 points 21 hours ago

The problem in your logic here is that immigrant children aren't people in their eyes, so fetus or not they can't be murdered.

[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 80 points 1 day ago (3 children)
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[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 61 points 1 day ago (14 children)
[–] Brokuli@sopuli.xyz 55 points 23 hours ago

The message is good, the use of AI is not. Heres a hand drawn one:

Credit

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[–] Jolly_Platypus@lemmy.world 36 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Florida Lawmakers Sound Alarm Over Plans 'To Send Pregnant Women & Children' to ~~'Alligator Alcatraz'~~ concentration camp

FTFY

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