To the editor: I’m revolted by the photograph 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 middle 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 photograph of a pair fortunately posing in entrance of the “Alligator Alcatraz” signal — I do know the comparability isn’t fully truthful, however I couldn’t assist however think about what it will be prefer to see the identical scene within the Nineteen Forties, with a contented couple in entrance of one in every of 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. Additionally it is 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 folks can exit of their technique to proudly assist 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 likely be one other shameful a part of American historical past.
David Lynn, Simi Valley
