Looking at what is happening in our country about the subject of illegal immigrants, about how the Law and Justice Department scares them, and Robert Bąkiewicz's militias spread fear as self-proclaimed defenders of the western border, it can be assumed that there are people in Poland who might like specified a place.
Because Donald Trump, in which the Polish right is looked at, seems to be in full delight. He thinks Alcatraz alligator is simply a function model for the remainder of the country. So much so that he would want akin places to be created in many states.
Cages for illegal immigrants in Algator Alcatraz
It looks shocking in pictures and recordings. We see large shelter halls divided into wire cages filled with thousands of metallic beds. About 200 cameras and 400 safety personnel are guarding them. A barbed wire 8.5 km was utilized to safe the full facility. It can accommodate over 3,000 immigrants (although it is besides said to be 5,000) who are to wait for deportation here. There is no another way from here, as Trump stated.
– We will teach them how to escape an alligator if they can escape from prison – the president of the United States made a gag erstwhile he visited the hotel a fewer days ago and opened it. The first group of immigrants was reportedly already brought here.
It's a giant absurdity. This is amazing. It's hard for me to find the right terms for this drama. I have no words of outrage. This is terrible – he responds in a conversation with prof. Roman Wieruszewski, erstwhile associate of the UN Human Rights Committee, b. expert on human rights of the OSCE, b. head of Poznań Human Rights Centre, and present Rector of the European Higher School of Law and Administration in Warsaw.
– This is inhumane and contrary to global standards. This is further evidence that Trump ignores global standards that we have worked out over the years on human rights and humanitarian approaches," he says.
Prof. Wieruszewski admits that specified a centre could besides appeal to any in Poland.
That's enough. These people would inactive have public support for specified solutions. This is amazing. We're heading in a tragic direction. I always thought we'd worked on these issues. And that's not true. I can see that erstwhile it comes to the humanitarian approach, we are going backwards. And I'm very sad about it," he says.
A center surrounded by wetlands where alligators live
The temporary hotel was established in 8 days. It is located at the inactive Dade Collier Training and Transition Airport in Florida, which was expected to be the largest airport in the planet years ago, or at least, as CNN says, to be 5 times larger than the fresh York JFK.
It's about an hour's drive from downtown Miami and about 2 hours from Trump's residence in Mar-a-Lago. In the mediate of the Everglades National Park, which is on the UNESCO planet Heritage List.
The tents were placed on the runways. "Medias specified as water, sewage and electricity will be supplied with mobile equipment" writes CNN.
The swamps and wetlands of alligators, crocodiles, and pythons are miles away. The place, as it turns out, was chosen by accident.
"You don't gotta invest that much in security. If individual gets out, there's not much waiting for him but alligators and pythons," Florida state lawyer general James Uthmeier reported.
Florida politician Ron DeSantis stated, "From an apparent safety point of view, if individual escapes, he will gotta face many alligators. Nobody goes anywhere after that. This is the safest place you can imagine."
They took the initiative to aid Trump "to fight illegal immigration". The name is to be made by Ulhmeier.
It may be hard to believe, but the U.S. administration truly takes it seriously. On social media, there were photos and recordings of road services putting signs indicating the way to "Alligator Alcatraz".
A fewer days ago, the facility visited Trump. As he stated, "he wouldn't want to run around the Everglades besides long," and that anyone who tried it would meet "a lot of cops in the form of alligators."
"This treatment of immigrants as subhumans"
– It gives me the creeps to see what it looks like and what the thought of this place is. It looks like a prison, and it'll most likely be a prison somehow. It is besides another example of treating immigrants as subhumans, forms of racism and their instrumentalization – he comments on Karolina Szymanska from the Survivor Foundation, which helps people with experience of migration, including refugees.
He sees the political game above all.
– Playing instrumentally people and showing them as a threat that they deserve only and exclusively specified treatment is simply a form of capital building by Donald Trump. And we know our right-wing politicians are very good at it. We besides know that Donald Trump's advisors support Polish campaigns – he notes.
Protests against Alligator Alcatraz
In social media, there is an avalanche of outrage. Comparisons to the concentration camp are being made, Auschwitz-Birkenau is being exchanged. "Disgusting", "Chore", "Diabolic" – people react.
"Alcatraz alligator? Nope. Name it. It's the Auschwitz alligator" – I read 1 of the comments.
The commentators pay attention to cages, conditions, but besides to the weather in this region – heat, moisture, mosquitoes and hurricane season.
In front of the erstwhile airport there are besides protesters, who besides rise slogans about environmental damage.
Another hotel after the Alcatraz alligator already exists
Let us recall, since the beginning of the current U.S. President's term, Donald Trump has been fighting immigration. Immediately after his inauguration, a large-scale run of arrests and deportations began. According to the decree signed at the time, the detainees were to go to Guantanamo prison.
In the spring, his administration announced that he would revoke the temporary legal position allowing a stay in the US for more than 500,000 immigrants.
Alligator Alcatraz is another installment of the fight against illegal immigration, but it is to be just the beginning. According to the politician of Florida, the construction of another makeshift detention facility for immigrants is already underway in this state – at the Camp Blanding National defender Training Centre, about 50 km from Jacksonville.
– Fortunately, in Poland we are far from building any kind of prison for immigrants, but I know that refugees who are staying in protected centres for foreigners are not treated in the best way. That's what the people who stayed in them talk about. We besides know that erstwhile there are more people in the center, the allowed space per individual is 2m2 – little than in prisons – says Karolina Szymańska.
