The protesters showing up every week to shut down ‘Alligator Alcatraz’: ‘We will end this’ - Lemmy

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40865607 [https://lemmy.ml/post/40865607] > Richard Luscombe > Fri 26 Dec 2025 11.00 EST > > >It is a ritual that began in August, a month after the opening of the remote detention camp celebrated by Donald Trump for its harsh conditions, and hailed by Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, as a model for the president’s aggressive detention and deportation agenda. > > >The open air vigils continued, and grew in size, through the brutal heat and torrential rains of the south Florida summer. They endured through a federal judge’s order in August that “Alligator Alcatraz” should close, and a subsequent reversal by an appeals court; the protesters’ voices grew louder at alleged human rights abuses and violence inflicted on detainees. >