Will you add your name to an urgent campaign to close “Alligator Alcatraz”?

 

THIS IS AN INTERNATIONAL DISGRACE: VIOLATIONS OF INTERNATION STATUTES 

& INHUMANE CONDITIONS BY A FOR PROFIT PRISON! 

We need your help to shut down an appalling detention center in Florida, called “Alligator Alcatraz”. Hundreds of people are being held in squalid, overcrowded cages. Reports describe swarms of mosquitos and maggots, lack of medical care, and rapidly spreading illness. This week, thousands of Amnesty activists spoke out against these government-sanctioned abuses. Be one of the 10,000 voices we need TODAY to urge Congress to call for its closure. If we don’t speak up now, more of these inhumane sites could spread across the country. That’s why it’s critical that we put an end to this immediately. Your lawmakers need to hear from you on this critical issue! ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ NEEDS TO GO Together, we can close this down. Thanks for speaking out, Billie

Demand “Alligator Alcatraz” be shut down now! Deep in Florida’s swampland, a hastily constructed makeshift immigration detention site was just built — and it’s so cruel and so dangerous that it’s being called “Alligator Alcatraz.” We are tremendously concerned about reports of unspeakable and inhumane conditions — swarms of mosquitoes, maggot-infested food, sweltering heat, and lack of medical care or even basic hygiene like showers. Over 30 men are detained in a single cage, with only 3 toilets for them to share. These are government-sanctioned abuses — and they’re being funded with Floridians’ taxpayer dollars, with the expectation that ICE will pay them back using their new just-passed mega billion dollar slush fund. Unless we act right now, it could become a model for even more sites like it under Trump’s $150 billion mass deportation expansion. We need to put a STOP to this immediately. As a first step, send your letter to demand your members of Congress in MA halt any funding of this shameful facility and immediately call for its closure. HELP SHUT DOWN ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ “Alligator Alcatraz” is a grotesque extension of Trump’s racist, anti-immigrant agenda — designed not for justice, but for suffering. It is terrorizing immigrants who are our neighbors, our coworkers, and our friends — people who came to the U.S. seeking safety and dignity, but instead were unlawfully arrested and locked behind bars. We must dismantle the mass deportation machine and invest in welcoming communities. Demand that Alligator Alcatraz be shut down now! And please forward this to everyone you know. Every voice matters. Thank you for mobilizing quickly on this — more to come. Billie Hirsch Senior Director of Online Engagement Amnesty International USA

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