SimonJul 14
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This is illegal and violating so many civil rights it isn't even funny. Court orders don't help when they aren't obeyed or ENFORCED. Laws don't work when they are disregard and BROKEN. This has to stop. People are going to die.
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Show threadRealGene ☣️Jul 14

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Laura Sherman Eig

Today my law partner and I decided to take a drive out to Alligator Alcatraz, the new ICE detention facility in the everglades. We both have clients detained there that are eligible for bond. However, there is no court facility there to file the bond motions in person, and they are not being accepted online by any other jurisdiction. We did not expect to gain access to our clients, we simply wanted to understand with our own eyes what lack of access looks like. Lack of access is very young national guard soldiers stopping each car, not letting us into the facility, a slew of Florida emergency personnel wearing shirts designating them as police were there to secure the perimeter of the grounds. The officer in charge took our DLs, bar cards & names of our clients and sent them to some officer in the facility. And then we waited. The officer recommended we wait inside our vehicle or be eaten alive by mosquitos. Recommendation unnecessary, mosquitos were fierce. We waited until after 5pm, well over an hour, the officer in charge called into the facility more than once. no information came back. With no word that we would have access to our clients, we finally left. This is what lack of access looks like. My client does have access to a public phone, and I have spoken to him at length. The conditions within the facility are deplorable. The facility is filling daily with more and more people, and it lacks basic infrastructure to handle its current capacity, while not yet having reached max capacity. Detainees are being issued inmate and booking numbers, but cannot be found on the ice detainee locator, nor collier or miami dade county inmate searches. The population has been detained by ICE, but ICE is denying jurisdiction, saying it's a state facility. My client has been denied access to his attorney, denied the right to file a motion for bond, which he is statutorily eligible for, and denied the right to a hearing on said motion for bond before an immigration judge.

Show threadlevampyreJul 14
@resistofficial.bsky.social You have to storm those facilities and free the people by force, before they shove them into the ovens by the dozen. Seriously, this has happened before. It can happen again.
Show threadWilliam B PeckhamJul 14
@levampyre @resistofficial.bsky.social You expect a couple of lawyers to storm a facility in the middle of a swamp that has armored guards and a reinforced perimeter? Get real.
Show threadAlexanderVIJul 14

@wbpeckham @levampyre @resistofficial.bsky.social

Hey, it happened at the Bastille, an actual fortress, eventually. 🤷‍♂️

Show threadWilliam B PeckhamJul 14
@AlexanderVI @levampyre @resistofficial.bsky.social Yeah, the Bastille is not in a swamp, and it was not overrun by lawyers. It's not that I disagree with your comments, but you're making them to the wrong people. The posters were a couple of lawyers. You need an army.
Show threadlevampyreJul 15

@wbpeckham Okay, I understand that the English language is confusing at times with its lack of distinct grammatical forms. But when I said "you" I did not mean the two lawyers. I meant the American people. You guys over the pond. I expect that not all of you are MAGA fanbois, but that there are actually some decent people left, who have an actual problem with fascism and/or authoritarianism.

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Show threadlevampyreJul 15

@wbpeckham Two unarmed lawyers are ill equipped in that situation. That would indeed be suicide. No, instead I hope for the American people to storm the facility and free their brothers, sisters and neighbors. What I expect is that they remain silent, like my countrymen did in the past. And then I expect history to repeat itself. But let's focus on hope for now.

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Show threadYet another Josh Jul 14

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When the majority party captures house, senate, presidency, and jurisprudence, it means the "laws" are what's enforced.

Not enforced? Not a law.

Its also a textbook case of one of the failure modes of the constitution.

Show threaddisorderlyfJul 14
@resistofficial.bsky.social arguably, all of the amendment in the US Bill of Rights have been violated in the ~7 months since the beginning of the current President's term. I regret none of this shocks me anymore
Show threadGarth Cummings5d ago
@resistofficial.bsky.social @oldredsubby Alligator Auschwitz