To the editor: I’m revolted by the picture of the grinning guests flashing a thumbs up in entrance of President Trump’s monument to distress and inhumanity, the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” detention middle (“Deportation flights from Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention center have begun, DeSantis says,” July 25). How did so many individuals turn into dismissive and uncaring about rights, each human and people enshrined within the Structure of this previously nice nation? Disgrace on us. That is taking place on our watch.
Elizabeth Alexander, Ojai
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To the editor: In regard to the picture of a pair fortunately posing in entrance of the “Alligator Alcatraz” signal — I do know the comparability shouldn’t be utterly truthful, however I couldn’t assist however think about what it will be wish to see the identical scene within the Forties, with a cheerful couple in entrance of considered one of Germany’s focus camps.
It’s well documented that most individuals swept up within the immigration raids haven’t any prison convictions and that raids goal companies and church buildings; it’s not about catching hardened criminals. It’s also well documented that the Florida facility has inadequate, even inhumane (and I might recommend un-American) circumstances, with a reputation and site purposefully chosen for harshness.
That individuals can exit of their method to proudly help a facility that isn’t as much as the requirements of a jail, designed as a holding pen for noncriminals picked up at Dwelling Depot and your neighborhood church — this will probably be one other shameful a part of American historical past.
David Lynn, Simi Valley
