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Amaryllis

(10,602 posts)
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 06:23 PM Monday

"dangerous and unlawful conditions" inside Alligator Alcatraz pose serious health implications say health professionals

https://www.wusf.org/politics-issues/2025-07-23/alligator-alcatraz-serious-health-issues-detainees-say-health-workers-migrant-advocates

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"Dangerous and unlawful conditions" inside the state-managed immigration detention camp in the Everglades pose serious health implications for hundreds of detainees, says a group of health professionals, immigrant advocates and family members of those being held.

"This isn't a detention facility — it's a public health experiment gone horribly wrong," said Sebastian Caicedo, Miami-Dade regional director at Florida Rising. "People are being exposed to viruses, sewage, and extreme trauma. It's state-sponsored cruelty, and it has to stop."

Caicedo was among several medical professionals who appeared at a protest and press conference Tuesday morning outside the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, the site of the detention center Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state officials call "Alligator Alcatraz."

"The internment camp is an atrocity in our community," said Tessa Petit, the co-executive director, of the Florida Immigration Coalition, one of the most influential statewide immigrant advocacy groups.

"The conditions under which people are detained raise major medical concerns," she said, raising questions about facility's toilets and sink systems and high temperatures inside the "cages" where detainees are being housed.
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"dangerous and unlawful conditions" inside Alligator Alcatraz pose serious health implications say health professionals (Original Post) Amaryllis Monday OP
The goal is to kill people, a painful death. Irish_Dem Monday #1
It's too bad there isn't anyone to do anything about it. BlueTsunami2018 Monday #2
It is hotter than fire in FL right now! No one should be in a tent!! OrlandoDem2 Monday #3

BlueTsunami2018

(4,514 posts)
2. It's too bad there isn't anyone to do anything about it.
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 06:35 PM
Monday

All this shit needs to be stopped but there’s no one around to do it.

Everyone just has to sit here and take it.

OrlandoDem2

(3,058 posts)
3. It is hotter than fire in FL right now! No one should be in a tent!!
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 06:52 PM
Monday

This is a gross violation of human rights!!

Everyone please continue boycotting Florida!!! Don’t put money into our economy PLEASE!!

Alligator Alcatraz and DeSantis/Trump/MAGA are disasters!!

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