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 heart (“Deportation flights from Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention heart have begun, DeSantis says,” July 25). How did so many individuals change into dismissive and uncaring about rights, each human and people enshrined within the Structure of this previously nice nation? Disgrace on us. That is occurring 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 might be prefer to see the identical scene within the Nineteen Forties, with a contented couple in entrance of one in all Germany’s focus camps.
It’s effectively documented that most individuals swept up within the immigration raids don’t have any legal convictions and that raids goal companies and church buildings; it’s not about catching hardened criminals. It is usually effectively documented that the Florida facility has inadequate, even inhumane (and I’d counsel un-American) situations, with a reputation and site purposefully chosen for harshness.
That individuals can exit of their solution 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 shall be one other shameful a part of American historical past.
David Lynn, Simi Valley
