A group of detained illegal aliens at a South Florida immigration facility, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” have entered the tenth day of a so-called “hunger strike.”
These detainees, many with criminal backgrounds, are whining about “inhumane” conditions while refusing food, all in a bid to game the system and avoid rightful deportation.
But here’s the real outrage: Radical Democrats are using this manufactured crisis to bash President Trump’s tough-on-crime policies, even as the Biden-Harris regime’s open borders fiasco floods our communities with lawbreakers!
At the center of this leftist-fueled drama is Pedro Hernández, a Cuban national who came into the U.S. back in 2006 and was finally nabbed during a routine ICE check-in in Miramar this July.
Hernández, who admits to a prison stint in his past, was briefly hospitalized during the strike but stubbornly continues to reject food.
His wife, Daimarys Hernández, is playing the sympathy card hard, telling NBC6, “My husband was in prison. We make mistakes, but we learn from them and fix things.”
In a recorded phone call from inside the facility, Hernández told the news outlet: “We’ve all been hungry since Tuesday. I’m not going to eat another plate of food until they show us respect.”
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Other inmates say they have faced poor sanitation and other brutal conditions inside the facility, which sits in the middle of a sweltering swamp.
“They only brought a meal once a day and it has maggots,” Leamsy “La Figura” Izquierdo, a Cuban artist who was housed at the facility, told CBS News. “They never take of the lights for 24 hours. The mosquitoes are as big as elephants.”
The facility is facing lawsuits on environmental and civil rights grounds, with lawyers accusing officials of largely barring them from being able to speak with detainees.
Deportation flights for detainees held at the facility have begun, state officials announced last week.
Earlier this month, Florida news outlets found that among those held at Alligator Alcatraz, only about one-third had a past criminal record, despite officials touting the prison as being designed to hold the worst of the worst.
Last month, state officials pushed back against the detainees’ claims, calling them “completely false.”
“The reporting on the conditions in the facility is completely false. The facility meets all required standards and is in good working order,” said Stephanie Hartman, director of communications for the Florida Division of Emergency Management.
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