Florida Lawmakers Sound Alarm Over Plans 'To Send Pregnant Women & Children' to 'Alligator Alcatraz'
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Democratic lawmakers in Florida are raising alarm over documents suggesting immigrant children and pregnant women could be detained at 'Alligator Alcatraz.'

Lawmakers in Florida are raising alarm over documents suggesting immigrant children and pregnant women could be detained at ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’

A draft operational plan obtained by the Miami Herald suggests minors could indeed be transported to the controversial site in the Everglades. The 35-page undated document details protocols to “separate minors from unrelated adults” and to provide “snacks and water” to minors, pregnant women and detainees with medical conditions during transport.

“The State of Florida is planning to send pregnant women and children to the ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention camp,” wrote State Senator Carlos Guillermo Smith on social media. “This is totally un-American. We cannot be silent.”

  • smiletolerantly@awful.systems
    1618·
    12 hours ago

    Said who, besides you?

    No, sending men there is not OK; but yes, sending pregnant people and children there is indeed even worse than sending men and women in good health there.

    Glad to have cleared that up for you! As soon as you’ve worked on your reading comprehension, I recommend looking up the term “straw-man argument”.

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
      183·
      12 hours ago

      They are pointing out the alarms only going off for women/children instead of for everyone

      • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        92·
        9 hours ago

        The alarms are not going off for women, they’re going off for pregnant women, but all these “whatabout men” comments are ignoring that non-pregnant women are also in the ignored group and just making it about men’s welfare being discredited. Gives MRA vibes.

    • Rekhyt@lemmy.world
      101·
      10 hours ago

      I think you’re the one who needs to work on your reading comprehension. The air quotes around “okay” clearly indicate that they think it is NOT okay.

      • smiletolerantly@awful.systems
        611·
        12 hours ago

        That’s a good faith interpretation, but I’ve never seen a comment like this that isn’t whining “but what about men”.

        The comment is saying: “oh, so we are pointing out that sending people to places like these is bad when it’s happening to women, but not when it’s happening to men”, which is whataboutism, derailment, and a misreading of the article.