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Florida officials hastily built the detention center last year, prompting a string of lawsuits

Guards inside Florida’s notorious “Alligator Alcatraz” immigrant detention facility are reportedly wearing patches featuring the Grim Reaper and the words “You can’t hide.”

A former guard at the facility, which sits on an old airstrip in a remote patch of the Everglades, reportedly made the patches and distributed them to other staff members.

“What I saw was ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ a skeleton dressed in black holding a hatchet and a crocodile underneath,” former detainee Lewis Ortigoza told the Miami Herald of the patch. “It looked like something demonic.”

“I always felt haunted by it, but I never said anything because I was so afraid,” he added.

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[–] MooseWinooski@lemmy.ca 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is a concentration camp regime and it is on track to becoming a death camp regime.

The patches indicate intent

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] nothingcorporate@lemmy.today 9 points 1 day ago

Alligator Auschwitz

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

I thought this place was shut down cause of lawsuits over environmental impact ? (Cause that was the only way to fight it).

?

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A totenkopf is still a little too on the nose?

[–] ZC3rr0r@piefed.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Give it a few more months. I fully expect the regime to come to the conclusion that deportation flights are too expensive soon, and when the countries they're dumping these folks off at refuse to foot the bill, it's a very short walk towards a "endlösung der Judenfrage" scenario.

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“I always felt haunted by it [the patches], but I never said anything because I was so afraid,” he added.

That isn't terrifying: it's moronic. It's the kind of striving, pathetic thing you'd expect from a 10-year old boy, doodling on a piece of paper, wishing that someone, anyone would take him seriously.

[–] ChexMax@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

Right but imagine that 10 year old has the ability and permission to beat you to feel powerful. That he's wearing the patch specifically to scare you. That is scary. Psychopaths are scary, and the fact that they don't feel the need to be professional enough to not wear these patches that mean I am here because I want to kill you is scary, whether the patch design is moronic or not.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

I’m okay with this.

If they’re “guarding” Donald.

[–] ChrisG@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Behind the orange curtain in Trumpghanistan the regime inch toward a final solution.

And still no nation wide general strike ...

[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 1 points 17 hours ago

Nah they won’t do shit, unless it’s to kids or other people.

They’ll piss and moan they can’t do anything though.

I won’t forget it that’s for sure. I’ve seen what they truly are now.