Wasserman Schultz told me that when she says the Everglades detention center is a “monument to cruelty” and that the “cruelty is the point,” she wants to underscore that she sees the facility as a means to an end.
The reason DeSantis and Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier chose to place the facility “in the middle of the broiling hot swampy environment,” and the reason they have since made so many jokes about the perils that await escapees outside its fences, she told me, is that they want people to be afraid of getting sent there.
“They want to make it so awful people self-deport,” she said.
Important to keep in mind that plot of land has always been involved in corrupt schemes. Draining the Everglades, building a giant airport, and so on. At a basic level this comes down to land use and environmental protection as much as social policy and borders.
[OP] D-R-AZ | 10 hours ago
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Wasserman Schultz told me that when she says the Everglades detention center is a “monument to cruelty” and that the “cruelty is the point,” she wants to underscore that she sees the facility as a means to an end.
The reason DeSantis and Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier chose to place the facility “in the middle of the broiling hot swampy environment,” and the reason they have since made so many jokes about the perils that await escapees outside its fences, she told me, is that they want people to be afraid of getting sent there.
“They want to make it so awful people self-deport,” she said.
m0llusk | 9 hours ago
Important to keep in mind that plot of land has always been involved in corrupt schemes. Draining the Everglades, building a giant airport, and so on. At a basic level this comes down to land use and environmental protection as much as social policy and borders.
dumpitdog | 4 hours ago
The alligators have not forgotten.