Not just ‘Alligator Alcatraz': DeSantis floats building another immigration detention center
- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced plans to consider Camp Blanding Joint Training Center for an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility.
- DeSantis described the new facility as being 'similar' to the already planned detention facility at an isolated Everglades airfield.
- Democrats and activists have criticized the detention plan as a politically motivated spectacle.
- State officials plan for a temporary detention facility using structures like tents and trailers.
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Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Everglades prison ignores both environment and history
After the fight over the Miami Jetport ended, all that was left in the Everglades was this isolated Miami-Dade airstrip near Ochopee, which is what attracted Attorney General James Uthmeier to choose it as the site for what he called "Alligator Alcatraz." (Screengrab via Uthmeier's X account)Last week, Florida’s recently appointed attorney general, James Uthmeier, announced that he had a pretty snazzy idea: Build the state’s biggest immigrant de…
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