Trump’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ migrant heart: – Latest News
The Issue: President Trump’s “Alligator Alcatraz” immigrant detention heart within the Everglades.
Is that what Dems assume a focus camp is (“Peek into ‘Swamp cooler,’ ” July 2)?
The primary part of focus camps have been the gasoline chambers. Alligator Alcatraz has air-con.
This is a good place for the ICE rioters to go. I adore it.
Carol Meltzer
Manhattan
Forget sights like Miami Beach and Disney World. Florida has a new vacationer vacation spot known as “Alligator Alcatraz.”
That’s proper: The state is spending $450 million a yr to lock up each immigrant it might catch; many who’ve been right here for years choosing produce, cleansing bogs, altering sheets at our accommodations, fixing your roof, washing dishes at your favourite restaurant and doing jobs that no American needs to do.
Some states have very patriotic symbols of immigration: New York has the Statue of Liberty that long welcomed immigrants to our shores. Here within the “Free State of Florida,” we’ve Alligator Alcatraz.
Since we use these immigrants for his or her providers more than some other state, that makes us the nation’s greatest pack of hypocrites.
John Bonano
Gulfport, Fla.
So now the weak, cowardly, childish, looney Democrats are whining about sending unlawful immigrant thugs to a jail surrounded by alligators.
And the Dems nonetheless can’t determine why we don’t vote for them.
Jake McNicholas
Whitestone
The newly constructed Alligator Alcatraz heart to detain unlawful migrants slated for deportation has been branded by liberals like Joy Reid as a “concentration camp for brown people.”
Reid is a hard-core, far-left radical and this “concentration camp” label is a reflection of her extreme case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Democrats need to have their historical past refreshed.
“Concentration camps” was the time period largely used during Nazi Germany’s brutal rule. They have been death camps set up particularly for one use solely: the assembly-line homicide of 6 million fully harmless Jews. No one got here out alive.
Plus: The left most likely is aware of, however chooses to disregard, the truth that during World War II it was a Democratic president, Franklin Roosevelt, who incarcerated harmless, law-abiding, American residents just because they have been of Japanese descent.
Max Wisotsky
Highland Park, NJ
I by no means thought that I might reside long enough to see a US president assist a detention facility that holds people with out due course of within the Florida Everglades surrounded by snakes.
Vin Morabito
Scranton, Pa.
The Issue: The University of Pennsylvania strips transgender swimmer Lia Thomas‘ previous titles.
It is totally acceptable for Lia Thomas to be stripped of her titles in feminine occasions (“Penn yanks trans titles,” July 2).
However, there needs to be a separate class for transgender girls with its own awards and data. If a transgender lady finishes within the high three in an occasion, she needs to be entitled to a medal, however it needs to be along with the medals awarded to the highest three cisgender girls.
Everyone needs to be allowed to compete, however they need to not have full freedom as to which class they compete in.
Bruce Couchman
Toronto, Canada
The actions undertaken by the University of Pennsylvania to nullify its transgender swimmer’s titles is nothing much less than a tacit expression of what has been identified all alongside: This was a organic man competing in opposition to younger girls in grievously unfair athletic competitions.
Anthony Parks
Garden City
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