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Hundreds Of Former 'Gator Gulag' Prisoners Can't Be Found, Is That Bad? (www.wonkette.com)

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As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined.

Hey, remember how back in 2018 Trump’s immigration people just didn’t bother keeping records to match parents to the children they took away at the border, and as late as 2024, as many as 1,360 children still couldn’t be returned to their families? These detainees are adults, though, so maybe disappearing them from official records is less scandalous. They’re only illegals, so it’s not like they’re people.

. . . “It became a game of chicken to see who’s going to blink first, to see if the client’s going to say ‘I don’t want to be detained in these conditions, just send me back,’” said Miami immigration attorney Alex Solomiany.

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[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 5 days ago

That was my first thought too.

If a prison never seems to fill up, despite taking in more than it can hold several times over… That isn’t a prison, it’s a death camp.