🛑 Shut Down Alligator Alcatraz and Every ICE Black Site Detention Camp in America
Shut down every ICE black site and replace cruelty with common-sense immigration laws that protect long-time residents like Paul John Bojerski while ensuring safe, secure borders.
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Friends, before I dive into today’s main issue, I want to share a brief from our Resist Project 2025 newsletter. This will help give you a fuller picture of the consequences faced by one of the detainees at Alligator Alcatraz1
🚶♂️ Florida grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after living 70 years in United States
A Florida grandfather, Paul John Bojerski, who was born in a post-World War II refugee camp, has lived in the U.S. legally for decades, and served his community now faces custody by the immigration agency under a decades-old deportation order. He was detained after living 70 + years in the United States and while in a wheelchair fell out at the detention center, waiting hours for help. His case underscores how long-term residents with tenuous documentation are vulnerable amid aggressive enforcement. — Tampa Bay Times, Orlando Sentinel
Freedom Requires Ending ICE Torture
America cannot call itself a nation of freedom, dignity, or justice and at the same time, it operates places like “Alligator Alcatraz” — a secretive ICE black site in Florida known for extreme abuse, denial of due process, and the kind of government-sanctioned cruelty that has no place in a democracy. These facilities are deliberately hidden away. They thrive in the shadows, beyond public oversight, and outside the constitutional guarantees that every person on U.S. soil is supposed to have. And right now, under the Trump administration that prides itself on fear and punishment, these black site detention centers have multiplied, trapping human beings in conditions meant to break them, not process them.
“Alligator Alcatraz” is not an outlier — it is a warning. Across the country, ICE is operating makeshift black sites in local jails, abandoned buildings, repurposed warehouses, and off-the-books detention wings where immigrants, asylum seekers, and even U.S. residents are held without transparency. Reports from human rights groups describe forced isolation, medical neglect, sexual abuse, denial of legal access, and retaliatory punishments for those who speak out. Families are torn apart. People vanish into a system that refuses to tell loved ones where they are. Children are traumatized for life. This is not immigration enforcement — this is state-sanctioned violence.
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No matter where anyone stands politically, we must draw a hard line. There is no justification for torture, black site detention, or the disappearance of human beings inside the United States of America. These camps do not make us safer; they make us less free. They normalize the idea that the government can take people, hide them, and mistreat them with impunity. That is the playbook of dictatorships — not democracies. If we allow black sites for one group, we open the door for black sites for anyone who becomes politically inconvenient.
We must demand Congress immediately investigate, defund, and permanently shut down “Alligator Alcatraz” and every ICE black site operating across this country. We must demand complete transparency, independent inspections, and accountability for officials who violate human rights. And we must protect whistleblowers and survivors who bravely speak out.
This is not just a policy fight — it is a fight about who we are. Do we stand for cruelty, secrecy, and authoritarian control? Or do we stand for freedom, dignity, and the rule of law?
It’s time to shut down Alligator Alcatraz.
It’s time to shut down every ICE black site and replace cruelty with common-sense laws that protect our neighbors — like Paul John Bojerski, who has lived in this country for more than 70 years — while also ensuring we maintain safe and secure borders.
It’s time to choose freedom over detention, humanity over hate, and power to the people over the politics of fear.
Today’s Calls to Action
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Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests), People Power United
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