Activists who reported at least six hospitalizations since the inauguration of the prison on July 3, talked about the arrival of ambulances on Sunday, while performing an ecumenical vigil
The Department of Internal Security (DHS) denied on Monday (4) that at the Alligator Alcatraz Immigrant Detention Center in Florida, there were hungry strike for almost two weeks, as activists reported. “False news. There is no hunger strike in Alligator Alcatraz,” DHS published on social networks on the site, capable of housing 2,000 people in the middle of the Everglades, a natural area surrounded by alligators and western swamps in Miami. DHS has denied American press information about an alleged hunger strike started about 12 days ago by immigrants, particularly Cuban nationality, to protest against alleged abuses at the site.
Activists of the Florida Immigrant Coalition (Flic), who reported at least six hospitalizations since the inauguration of the arrest on July 3, talked about the arrival of ambulances to the scene on Sunday, while performing an ecumenical vigil. “These false accusations about detention centers denigrate our brave ICE agents (Customs Immigration and Control Service), who are already facing an 830% increase in attacks against them,” DHS said. Families and civil organizations accused the arrest of violating the human rights of the detainees, with medical negligence, lack of access to legal representation, hand and feet handcuffs, confinement in jails and detention of people without criminal record.
But National Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended in an interview with the television network “CBS” on Monday that the site is a model for future detention centers that will be opened in the coming months, with Arizona, Nebraska and Louisiana as possible headquarters. Several judges requested last week information about Alligator Alcatraz, while advanced two different lawsuits against the Detention Center, one of immigrant advocates led by the American Union for Civil Liberties (ACLU) and another of environmentalists Friends of the Everglades and Center for Biological Diversity.
*With information from EFE
Posted by Fernando Dias
