US EditionFlorida Begins Construction of 'Alligator Alcatraz' Migrant Camp in Everglades
FLORIDA EVERGLADES, JUN 23 – The $450 million facility will hold up to 5,000 migrants amid concerns from Indigenous groups and environmentalists over its impact on the Everglades ecosystem.
- 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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Is ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ ‘Vile’ Or ‘Professional’? What Critics And Backers Say About Detainment Facility
Dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” the massive tent detention complex built deep in the Florida Everglades can hold 3,000 and could be the template for other facilities in other states.
Trump opens ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
In a move that has sparked both political debate and environmental outrage, former President Donald Trump officially opened a new migrant detention center located deep within the Florida Everglades. Nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz,” the facility is surrounded by a natural barrier of caimans and Burmese pythons, a unique and controversial feature touted as a deterrent against escape attempts. Source
'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. —…
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