Florida built a black site and other red states are sure to follow

Hundreds of people who are detained in Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” have no criminal accusation in the United States. But that did not prevent the Trump administration from building an installation in the United States with the level of dehumanization and terror which previously required the deportation of immigrants to prisons from other countries, such as the Cecot d’El Salvador.

Why outsource your black sites when you can build them at home? So effective, therefore America first.

Miami Herald find This, out of more than 700 people currently detained in the Florida detention center or who should be transferred there shortly, only about a third have criminal convictions, ranging from the attempted murder to traffic offenses. It is only in the Trump sectarian nativist administration that traffic offenses make you a “disturbed psychopath” which must be locked up in a black site in the Everglades.

There was never a reason to suspect that immigrant detention establishments in the United States would be more human or anchored in reality than those that the administration illegally returned to other countries. The innocents are not expelled to foreign prisons because the efforts of the Trump administration are Slapdash and Hasty; They are expelled because the Trump administration does not care if they innocent.

The files of the Ministry of Internal Security show that the Trump administration knew that a vast majority Venezuelan immigrants he sent to Cecot in March had no criminal conviction.

If the use of the term “black site” feels a little inflammatory or as an excessive scope here, it is understandable. This is the term usually reserved for secret prisons In other countries managed by the Central Intelligence Agency during the war in Iraq. But the Florida detention center has the same brutality, lack of surveillance and opacity. So if the shoe adapts …

For example, immigration lawyers point out that they are unable to visit their customers detained at “Alligator Alcatraz”. A lawyer even said That when she arrived to visit her client and other possible customers, she was not allowed to enter. One of the detainees she was trying to see was a 15 -year -old boy who, she said, was kept at the detention center for at least 3 days. Other lawyers have said That their customers do not even appear in the system of immigration courts, which makes it impossible to deposit requests on their behalf.

Florida also refuses to leave state legislators – well, democratic legislators – in the establishment, who is A violation of state law. According to Florida, this law only applies to the installations managed by the Ministry of Correctional Services, and the Immigrant detention center is not under the jurisdiction of the DOC.

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So who East Manage this thing?

Last month, two environmental groups has filed a legal action On how the government has abandoned this monstrosity in one of the country’s most sensitive ecosystems without required environmental examination. In a recent file in this case, DHS said to court that he has no authority over the installation because the DHS gave no federal money to Florida.

Thus, with regard to responsibility, it is not under the jurisdiction of the state or the federal government, but in one way or another, a government entity to authority To conclude romantic agreements with companies managed by donors from Big Gop.

The sellers who donated millions to Florida Ron Desantis and President Donald Trump, among other GOP candidates, have been rewarded by contracts to provide services with services that remain secret because they have signed non-disclosure agreements.

Florida already has plans For a second installation, with other red states that have followed. Interior Security Secretary Kristi Noem praised That the Trump administration is in talks with five GOP governors of the exciting opportunity that awaits them.

And what state would not want its own black site? There is an amazing quantity of federal money that lights up, he can engage in brutality against immigrants, and he can shove business to his greatest donors. This is the quintessence of Trump’s American dream.