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Florida Begins Construction of 'Alligator Alcatraz' Migrant Camp in Everglades
EVERGLADES, FLORIDA, JUN 23 – The facility aims to ease overcrowding and supports federal efforts to deport 3,000 migrants daily with an annual $450 million operating cost, officials said.
- The Department of Homeland Security is building a detention center in the Florida Everglades to temporarily hold migrants.
- Uthmeier stated that if detainees escape, they will face alligators and pythons in the Everglades.
- Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniela Levine Cava opposes the detention center proposal, citing environmental concerns.
- Operating the proposed site is expected to cost Florida approximately $450 million annually.
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'Alligator Alcatraz' shows Trump is just a pound-shop Bond villain
Like a pound-shop James Bond villain, Donald Trump will spend Tuesday basking in the glory of his latest evil wheeze.Attending the formal opening of “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida today, the President is seeking to burnish his tough-guy, law-and-order credentials by proving a willingness to surround the migrants he plans to hold in America’s latest deportation detention centre with alligators, snakes and other deadly swamp creatures.The Departm…
A stifling heat, mosquito clouds, hundreds of pythons and alligators... It is in this hostile environment that the state of Florida has begun the construction of a brand new migrant detention centre, reports the BBC on Wednesday 25 June. Located in the Everglades National Park, known for its swamps, the project called "Alcatraz des alligators" is intended to accommodate 1,000 prisoners for temporary stays before their expulsion, while dissuading…
Ron DeSantis shows off Alligator Alcatraz with grim tour
Gov. Ron DeSantis proudly shows off Alligator Alcatraz — a quickly built gulag that will hold 3,000 migrants in the middle of nowheresville, Florida. "Illegals come in, they're processed," the Florida governor tells Fox News as he conducts his tour of the extremely primitive camp, reportedly surrounded by alligators and pythons, which was slapped together in just days at the desolate Everglades airport, nearly two hours away from Miami by car. —…
Ron DeSantis urges Donald Trump to visit 'Alligator Alcatraz' after it opens Tuesday
Florida’s Governor is using President Donald Trump’s favorite cable news channel to invite the President to the still-under-construction “Alligator Alcatraz.” Gov. Ron DeSantis said twice on “Fox & Friends” that Air Force One could land at Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport on the edge of the Everglades National Park, which is being used as a detention center for undocumented immigrants starting Tuesday. “An invitation from me. We can …
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