Arianne Betancourt

And when I went to Minnesota right after Renee Good was killed,

You know, when you see the government attacking civilians for trying to protect their neighbors, it triggers something inside you.

And I think there's a disconnect in humanity where there's a group of people that see these things and it affects them and it makes them change and think about the future.

And the people that have been conditioned to think, oh, this is what's supposed to happen.

You follow rules or you get hurt.

It became much bigger than just my dad and me.

I think within a week of him being detained, I started connecting with other families and they didn't want to speak up.

They didn't want to.

They were like, no, no, no.

I'm just they're going to sign their their voluntary departure and we'll figure it out.

They were terrified.

They were terrified.

Back to Alligator Alcatraz.

I didn't stop.

Then I started working with the Worker's Circle, the organization that anchors the vigils every Sunday outside of Alligator Alcatraz.

I had been working with them on an unofficial...

Basis I was just doing a lot of volunteer work So I was connecting with families and relaying the information to them and relaying the information to them and that became a job and I went from talking to the families to then also talking directly with the detainees So for the last four months most of my conversations have been directly with people detained inside of alligator Alcatraz as I understand

as they're trying to are supposedly winding down operations there and people are being i guess removed from like the conditions have deteriorated like they're even worse somehow than they were before is that right yeah how so so the food that they they were fed the last week or so everything was dated two weeks prior like the expiration was dated two weeks prior stuff that was frozen and expired and that's what they're they're giving them the water is muddy

There's mosquitoes, bugs in it.

The guys say the water.