Workers at Sarasota-based U.S. Tent Rental have received death threats and been doxxed after the company was tapped to provide food service for workers building "Alligator Alcatraz,” a controversial massive immigration detention site being constructed in the Everglades.
U.S. Tent Rental employees said that the company is being misrepresented on social media as a main player in the detention center's construction. A TikTok posted on June 24 showed trucks with the U.S. Tent Rental logo driving to the detention site, garnering over 1.3 million views. ...
"If we have to ask every client about their political standpoint or their views on different issues, we'll never be in business," an employee shared about criticism directed at the business. The employee did not give their name because of safety concerns.
U.S. Tent Rental has shut off its phones after receiving dozens of threats over the last few days. An employee said that the company has no responsibility for setting up the detention site and is only providing meals for workers.
The company mostly provides services for weddings and events, but in the past, it has helped set up COVID testing sites and provided disaster relief across Florida and the country, staging food stations for power workers and emergency responders.
U.S. Tent Rental has shut off its phones after receiving dozens of threats over the last few days. An employee said that the company has no responsibility for setting up the detention site and is only providing meals for workers. ...
The company mostly provides services for weddings and events, but in the past, it has helped set up COVID testing sites and provided disaster relief across Florida and the country, staging food stations for power workers and emergency responders.
A U.S. Tent Rental salesperson, who declined to provide their name to Sarasota Herald-Tribune reporters, added that the company is “humanitarian” and is trying to ensure workers can have meals in an air-conditioned space.
“Everybody has it wrong,” the salesperson said. “Were we there? Yes, but not in that capacity.”
To be very clear: I am not a believer in death threats and I don't dox people's families.
On the other hand, all you have to do to understand why this is not "ask[ing] every client about their political standpoint or their views on different issues," just take that first paragraph and CHANGE ONE WORD:
Workers at Sarasota-based U.S. Tent Rental have received death threats and been doxxed after the company was tapped to provide food service for workers building "Alligator AUSCHWITZ,” a controversial massive immigration detention site being constructed in the Everglades.
It's pretty goddamn difficult to take the money to make sure that the people building a concentration camp in the Everglades "can have meals in an air-conditioned space" and not expect other people to have a problem with it.
Just ask Avelo Airlines, a struggling upstart that contracted to fly deportation flights to plump up a sagging bottom line ... and who's losing tax breaks in Connecticut while facing protests around the nation.
When the Connecticut AG's office asks you to verify that you "won’t operate deportation flights from any Connecticut airport and ... never operate flights with shackled children," and you blow them off ... that's how you lose your reputation AND your tax breaks.
We note, of course, that the national corporate media is mostly not covering these stories, any more than it is paying attention to the hugely successful Target boycott over DEI and LGBTQIA+.
Here's what the real message for businesses needs to be: MAKE A PROFIT OFF OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S RACIST DEPORTATION POLICY AND THERE ARE GOING TO BE CONSEQUENCES.
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