Alligator Alcatraz another Trumpian Virtue Signal

Life inside notorious immigration centre ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ as it enters final days

Now, just two months after it opened, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has said it will be shutting it down, in compliance with a judge’s orders. The process is already under way – border tsar Tom Homan told the BBC during a press conference that only about 50% of the detainees remain.

The BBC spoke to the families of two inmates who were moved in the past month, who say that their loved ones disappeared into the system when they were at their most vulnerable.

That includes Yaneisy’s son Michael Borrego Fernandez, who says he was left bleeding while in serious pain after a medical incident, before being moved to another facility. He is part of an ongoing lawsuit alleging inmates were denied in-person access to their lawyers.

It cost $245m to build and was nothing more than a Trumpian virtue signal.

Quarter of a billion wasted to look cruel on the immigrants Trump has demonised.

That’s America right now, a spittle fuelled hateful malice that knows no reason or logic, just reacts with malevolence.

This is America now.

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