Detainees report alleged uprising at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’: ‘A lot of people have bled’ | US immigration
The guards in Florida’s “Crocodile Alcatraz” immigrant prison deployed tear gases and caused the prisoners to be beaten collectively to suppress a mini -awakening, and was reported on Friday.
Allegations made by at least three prisoners in Miami’s telephone conversation to the Spanish Language News Channel Notmeras 23Authorities, a judge to close the camp in accordance with the order of closing the remote tent camp in the Everglades wetlands.
The incident occurred after a few immigrants kept there, after receiving news that a relative died, after he began to shout for “freedom .. A team of guards went in and began to beat individuals without discrimination with batons and fired tear gas to the prisoners.
“They beat everyone here, many people wing. Brother, tears. We migration, we are not guilty, we are not killers,” he said.
The prisoners claimed that a fire alarm was constantly stolen and a helicopter was heard because of the hill.
In the camp, where immigrants were kept in metal cages while waiting for deportation, the “inhuman” conditions and brutality reports have become ordinary. Donald Trump and Florida’s Republican Governor Ron Desantis celebrated his hard environment while visiting the facility last month.
Kathleen Williams, a federal judge in Miami, ordered the Crocodile Alcatraz to be closed within 60 days to violate the environmental laws last week, and rejected a movement to continue the order of Florida Province and Trump administration’s lawyers on Wednesday.
It was not clear when the last incident was claimed and Guardian could not confirm the details independently.
The Florida Emergency Management Department (FMEM), which runs the prison on behalf of Federal Migration and Customs Protection (ICE), has been realized.
Stephanie Hartman of the department, Stephanie Hartman, “These reports are produced. There is no uprising in Crocodile Alcatraz. Clean, safe living conditions are given to the prisoners and the guards are educated properly on all states and federal protocols,” he said.
The protesters, who have continued to exist at the gates of the prison since the opening of 2 July, said that they were not aware of any incident with an uprising, but they chronic other abuse reports that occurred there.
“The people organized in the facility were in a hunger strike for more than 14 days despite the Desantis administration. [in Miami]Texas and so on.
“[An uprising] Considering the abuse of people, I wouldn’t surprise me. “
Epic In a statement to journalists on Wednesday FMM’s General Manager Kevin Guthrie reported that after the announcement of a note, the authorities “increased the speed of lifting from there”. By Associated Press“We will probably fall to 0 people in a few days”.
While the governor explained the plans of a new immigrant prison in Northern Florida, which will be called a “deportation warehouse, in North Florida, he participated in the pressure of building detention camps with mockery with immigrants, including the“ Speedway Slammer ”in Indiana, and“Cornhusker ClinkIn Nebraska.
