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Stop alligator Alcatraz

To: Sen. Markey, Rep. Trahan, Sen. Warren

From: A verified voter in Billerica, MA

June 28

Starting the first week of July, when South Florida’s heat index regularly hits 100°F, they plan to detain up to 5,000 people in tents. No A/C. No real shelter. Just suffocating heat, choking humidity, and swarms of mosquitoes. The location? A remote airstrip deep in the Everglades, surrounded by marshes, alligators, and invasive pythons. Florida officials are calling it a “detainment camp.” They say it’s fine because “We are swamp creatures,” and even brag that nature will “do us some favors.” This isn’t policy. It’s cruelty plain and simple. And it’s happening on U.S. soil. People will die. What are you going to do about it?

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