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.”
Arguing against the comparison diminishes the harm that can come from a modern day concentration camp. If you want the Holocaust to stay in the history books and not find their way back into the news, you’d compare the two without hesitation. If you’re so familiar with the process, then you’d be screaming at every turn about what is obviously happening. If we can’t make the comparison between this camp and Auschwitz until we are gassing Latinos in America, then it is too late to stop it.
The argument over the minute details and terminology being not exactly the same is so brutally insane. I can’t even wrap my head around it honestly.