By Rachel Treisman
NPRPresident Trump visited Florida on Tuesday to tour what's been dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," a controversial migrant detention center in the Everglades that officials say is poised to start filling its bed in a matter of hours.
The president was joined by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state emergency management officials as he toured the makeshift facility, which the state put together within days of receiving federal approval last week.
"I thought this was so professional, so well done," Trump said after touring the center, which features rows of fenced-in bunk beds and a razor-wire perimeter. "It's really government working together."
The facility is situated within the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, an isolated, 39-square mile airstrip located within the wetlands of the Big Cypress National Preserve, next to Everglades National Park.
The site's nickname — coined by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier — references its proximity to the predators of the marshy Everglades, from pythons to alligators to mosquitoes.
"What'll happen is you'll bring people in there, they ain't going anywhere once they're there unless you want them to go somewhere, because, good luck getting to civilization," DeSantis said at an unrelated news conference on Monday. "So the security is amazing — natural and otherwise."
Speaking to reporters before departing for Florida, Trump described the facility as "an East Coast" version of the infamous island prison off the San Francisco coast. When asked if the idea was for detainees to get eaten by alligators if they try to escape, Trump replied "I guess that's the concept."
"Snakes are fast but alligators — we're going to teach them how to run away from an alligator. Don't run in a straight line, run like this," he said, waving his hands in a zigzag. "You know what, your chances go up about one percent."
...DeSantis said the first arrivals are expected sometime on Wednesday, after a security sweep. Noem said that could be within 24 hours.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is overseeing the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration, including by ramping up deportations and arrests and setting a daily quota of 3,000 arrests.
The administration wants to more than double its existing number of beds for detaining migrants nationwide to 100,000 and has framed Florida's newest detention facility as a key part of that effort.
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6 comments:
Illegals should return to their own countries. Simple! If not, they risk being on the alligators menu.
Winning 🏆
Some countries do not want them back and refuse to accept them. They see them as traitors to the land.
This is the same as when the illegal aliens were moved to other states, housed in hotels, given vouchers for food and no jobs.... that was antipatriotic . This is done by Trump so that is called winning. The objective: to keep them away from White communities.
Governor DeSantis, 👍
Governor Ron DeSantis has proposed using Florida National Guard members as immigration judges to expedite deportation processes. This plan, recently approved by President Trump, aims to address the backlog in federal immigration courts by training qualified Guardsmen for the role.
Let’s gets this rolling chief..
Anti-patriotic is fleecing US
taxpayers and redistributing
wealth to billionaires. The
immigration issue is a smokescreen that blinds MAGA cultists from reality.
Get ready to be sodomized by
Trump and his “tax relief “.
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