Angels in America have evacuated
Its fans call the immigrant concentration camp Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) set up in just days in the Everglades “Alligator Alcatraz.”
Joan Walsh writes for The Nation:
Within hours of the first news reports, folks at Bluesky were calling it “Alligator Auschwitz.” We shouldn’t minimize the cruelty of a Nazi death camp. But the two have more than a little in common.
“This kind of performative fascist cruelty is not new, or unique to the reign of Donald Trump,” Walsh writes. She reminds readers of Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio’s desert tent prison. But now we have Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wearing her Rolex to a photo op in front of bare-chested prisoners stacked like cordwood at the infamous CECOT prison in El Salvador.
Donald Trump said upon visiting Florida’s airstrip prison on Tuesday, “Pretty soon, this facility will handle the most menacing migrants, some of the most vicious people on the planet.”
Consider the Alligator Alcatraz gear on sale (above) by the Florida Republican Party before deciding who are the most vicious people on the planet.
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