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BumRushDaShow

(158,594 posts)
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 04:10 AM Aug 2

'Alligator Alcatraz' detainees on hunger strike for 10th day, protesting conditions

Source: NBC News

Aug. 1, 2025, 4:45 PM EDT / Source: NBC Miami


A hunger strike at a South Florida immigration detention center state officials have named “Alligator Alcatraz” has entered its tenth day, as detainees protest what they call inhumane and dangerous living conditions.

One of the detainees, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized during the strike but continues to refuse food. His wife, Daimarys Hernández, said she’s terrified for his health and fears he could die in custody, or be deported back to Cuba, alone. “My husband was in prison. We make mistakes, but we learn from them and fix things,” she told NBC6.

Pedro Hernández, who came to the U.S. from Cuba in 2006, was detained in July during a routine check-in with ICE in Miramar. He hasn’t been home since.

In a recorded phone call from inside the facility, he pleaded for help: “We’ve all been hungry since Tuesday. I’m not going to eat another plate of food until they show us respect," Hernández said.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/alligator-alcatraz-hunger-strike-detainees-protest-conditions-rcna222554

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'Alligator Alcatraz' detainees on hunger strike for 10th day, protesting conditions (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Aug 2 OP
k and r riversedge Aug 2 #1
I hate the suffering this adds . . . RedArkGuy Aug 2 #2
It's hard to believe that the US has actually built and populated a concentration camp. Jim__ Aug 2 #3
"It's hard to believe that the US has actually built and populated a concentration camp." BumRushDaShow Aug 2 #4
and Trump and his repugs are building MORE consentration camps. It is happening. riversedge Aug 2 #6
I hope this works better than the hunger strikes in the Maze prison in the 1980's. raccoon Aug 2 #5
Kick orangecrush Aug 2 #7
This admin hopes they all die of starvation, Bayard Aug 2 #8
Not necessarily PatSeg Aug 2 #10
The future of the corporate prison industry? Marcuse Aug 2 #16
Probably not far from reality PatSeg Aug 2 #17
This message was self-deleted by its author Bayard Aug 2 #9
KnR Hekate Aug 2 #11
Hunger strike? Is that like Epstein suicide? You know, they just aren't feeding them. twodogsbarking Aug 2 #12
It's evil to make people suffer needlessly BoRaGard Aug 2 #13
I take absolutely no credit. I looked back at my posts and on 7/23 I said that the concentration camp victims flashman13 Aug 2 #14
Like that will change MAGAt minds.... Quanto Magnus Aug 2 #15
Where are lawsuits and court orders to force appropriate conditions---feeding as the most basic necessity? Liberty Belle Aug 2 #18
I have been posting about the various lawsuits in LBN BumRushDaShow Aug 2 #19

RedArkGuy

(824 posts)
2. I hate the suffering this adds . . .
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 04:23 AM
Aug 2

. . . to what these people, most of whom have never committed a serious crime, are going through. But those detained making every one of these camps into Fort Chaffees will not bode well for the Trump administration. Civil disobedience can be practiced in these gulags and the word can be gotten out about their conditions.

BumRushDaShow

(158,594 posts)
4. "It's hard to believe that the US has actually built and populated a concentration camp."
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 05:17 AM
Aug 2

It's not the first time. This country has "been there done that" but doesn't want to teach about it in history.



Former Congressman Ron Dellums helped to spearhead reparations for the nightmare that the Japanese-Americans experienced 80-some years ago.

Bayard

(26,571 posts)
8. This admin hopes they all die of starvation,
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 12:08 PM
Aug 2

And solve the problem of warehousing them. I hope members of Congress get in there and document conditions. Eat what inmates have to eat.

PatSeg

(50,804 posts)
10. Not necessarily
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 01:47 PM
Aug 2

The private prison industry needs bodies. Trump's policies are a windfall for them and they undoubtedly have been supportive of him and other republican politicians. There should be a law against private prisons.

Response to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

flashman13

(1,480 posts)
14. I take absolutely no credit. I looked back at my posts and on 7/23 I said that the concentration camp victims
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 04:10 PM
Aug 2

should go on hunger strikes. It is the main weapon political prisoners have to fight their oppressors. Hunger strikes have a way of focusing world attention. The International Red Cross must demand to inspect the camps and get testimony from the inmates.

Quanto Magnus

(1,230 posts)
15. Like that will change MAGAt minds....
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 05:58 PM
Aug 2

If anything, they'll wish for a bunch of people in there to die.

Liberty Belle

(9,679 posts)
18. Where are lawsuits and court orders to force appropriate conditions---feeding as the most basic necessity?
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 08:15 PM
Aug 2

BumRushDaShow

(158,594 posts)
19. I have been posting about the various lawsuits in LBN
Sat Aug 2, 2025, 08:26 PM
Aug 2
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143486902
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143490543
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143497366

The most recent filed by the ACLU, immigrant rights groups. and a set of immigrants, explicitly noting the conditions.

But for the most part, the threads got yawns.


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