Florida protest challenges new concentration camp for immigrants

Florida protest challenges new concentration camp for immigrants

Starke, FL – On July 19, the Jacksonville Immigrant Rights Alliance (JIRA) called for activists across the state to mobilize to Starke, Florida in order to protest the planned construction of a new concentration camp in Camp Blanding. Over 700 gathered across the street from the gates of the base, along the side of State Road 16. After the construction of a detention center in the Everglades nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz,” Governor Ron DeSantis …