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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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[–] rozodru@lemmy.world 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 128 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 64 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)
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[–] PedroMaldonado@lemmy.world 84 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 30 points 5 days ago

Exactly. Call it Alligator Auschwitz.

[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 84 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 31 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 45 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Call it what it is: Alligator Auschwitz

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[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Nobody should be subjected to this

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 36 points 4 days 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.

[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 65 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] Brokuli@sopuli.xyz 67 points 5 days ago

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

Credit

[–] Spezi@feddit.org 20 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (8 children)

Ewww, AI slop

Not even original:

[–] qantravon@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Honest question, what's flagging this as AI for you? I can generally catch them pretty easily, but I'm not seeing it here.

[–] Spezi@feddit.org 29 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The sepia filter and the styling of the font as well as the whole overall feel is exactly like ChatGPT does cartoons.

[–] Rinn@awful.systems 20 points 5 days ago

Honestly, thank fuck for the AI studio Ghibli trend, they overtrained the models on that stuff and caused the easily recognizable piss filter to appear. Makes finding AI slop at a glance easier.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 47 points 5 days ago

Alligator Auswitz

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 31 points 4 days ago (1 children)

When trump dies the world will celebrate

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 16 points 4 days ago

No one mourns the wicked

[–] pawnfuture@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

Things can be immoral without only affecting women and children.

[–] pawnfuture@lemmy.world 39 points 5 days 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 32 points 5 days 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.

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 29 points 5 days ago

It's concentration camp. Why is anyone surprised?

[–] Jolly_Platypus@lemmy.world 37 points 5 days ago

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

FTFY

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 34 points 5 days ago

"What we're witnessing isn't about security or solving problems," they said in a joint statement, "It's about inhumane political theater that endangers real people."

Yep. It's a theater of cruelty that would have delighted the Marquis de Sade.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 24 points 5 days ago (24 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 32 points 5 days 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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[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 27 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Ok so. How has no one taken a drone out to this facility and gotten a recording of the entire exterior of it?

Because based on what I've seen, a couple of guys with bolt cutters could do some serious damage to it.

Hell, have we learned nothing from Ukraine? Get some cheap ass FPV drones to land with strips of thermite?

Like I'm 1.5k miles from where it is, so that's a bit of a problem for me. But how is there no one in Florida capable of this kind of thinking?

It's like everyone completely has no idea what "sabotage" is, and that you don't need to hurt people to defeat a regime.

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[–] devolution@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago (12 children)

Latinos overwhelmingly voted for this 70%.

Sorry, not sorry.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 49 points 5 days ago (2 children)
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[–] original_charles@lemmy.world 28 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Nobody deserves this. These people were suckered by a conman who has decades of experience conning people. That doesn't warrant a death sentence or even imprisonment.

If a successful coalition is to be formed, it has to be made up of former Trump voters. We won't have the numbers otherwise.

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[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 25 points 5 days ago

No they didn't. You just posted a made up a number and did it in the service of dehumanizing a minority population. And the people getting deported (at least now) didn't vote for anyone, they aren't citizens.

This comment is sus as hell. Exactly something a right winger would post to cause mistrust in opposition groups. And even if it isn't, you need to learn some media literacy if you're just parroting an obviously fake percentage like that.

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

the stats exist, you can check them instead of making shit up; the Latine vote was pretty close, but they still voted more for harris globally, tho i believe Latino men in particular voted ever so slightly more for trump

the only racial group who overwhelmingly voted trump, across men and women, and this is gonna SHOCK you!!, are whites.

whites voted for this; when are we rounding them up in concentration camps? when are we deporting them to europe?

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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

All the alarms have been going off for months now. But every organization that were supposed to do something about it were disbanded, defunded or rendered powerless.

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[–] Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'm sure that Ron DeSantis will take the opinions of the half a dozen or so Democrat lawmakers out of 43 in Florida's state government that could be bothered to show up very seriously, and it will be a top priority of the DeSantis and Trump administrations to address those concerns along with the other numerous legal and Constitutional issues surrounding the compound.

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