The infamous Florida immigrant detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” can remain open, an appeals court ruled Tuesday, overturning a lower judge’s decision to close the facility because it violated federal environmental laws.
The ruling is the latest development in the months-long legal battle against the center, which was constructed in the Everglades last summer by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration when the Department of Homeland Security needed more detention space to house immigrants pending their deportations.
The case was sent back to the district court. “This fight is far from over,” Samples, the Friends of the Everglades director, said in a statement Tuesday night. “Alligator Alcatraz will go down in history as a boondoggle to taxpayers and a flagrant assault on the Everglades, and we look forward to returning to the District Court to advance our case to shut it down.”
You said cruelty is the point. They AGREED, and said (to summarize) that this is NOT an exception, it (cruelty) is the American way.
I don’t get how you can say “cruelty is the point” but when they agree with you it’s “divisive”? What about that is more divisive than what you said?
Oh, so attacking an entire countries’ population isn’t divisive, as you don’t like them or something?
Go play in fucking traffic or something
JFC stop being such a massive dick. Nobody attacked an entire country’s population. They’re saying this is not a singular instance of cruelty, that there are many other examples, which indicates that it’s probably a systemic problem.
You: “These people are assholes”
Reply: “Yeah, in fact a lot of people are assholes.”
You: “How dare you!”
As if America doesn’t have a long history of cruelty?
I’m baffled. You made the original assertion that “cruelty is the point” - which makes a lot of assumptions, right or wrong - but at the same time you seriously think this (Alligator Alcatraz) is just a one-off? And that pointing out that it seems to be a trend is divisive?
Why are you being such a huge douche about this?