At the brand new Everglades immigration detention center that officials have dubbed “ Alligator Alcatraz,” people held there say worms turn up in the food. Toilets don’t flush, flooding floors with fecal waste, and mosquitoes and other insects are everywhere.

Inside the compound’s large white tents, rows of bunkbeds are surrounded by chain-link cages. Detainees are said to go days without showering or getting prescription medicine, and they are only able to speak by phone to lawyers and loved ones. At times the air conditioners abruptly shut off in the sweltering heat.

Days after Donald Trump toured it, attorneys, advocates, detainees and their relatives are speaking out about the makeshift facility, which Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration raced to build on an isolated airstrip surrounded by swampland. Detainees began arriving July 2.

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[–] 9 points 1 year ago

Music brought a black man and a Klan member together. That kinda thing happened hundreds of times.

Screenshot of headline of above-linked article: How One Man Convinced 200 Ku Klux Klan Members To Give Up Their Robes

It’s too tall an order for almost any mortal. Want to believe it’s true, though, and not impossible.

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