Florida began construction this week on a detention center surrounded by fierce reptiles and cypress swamps, an “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Everglades wetlands, as part of US President Donald Trump’s expansion of deportations of undocumented migrants
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Alligator Alcatraz
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President Donald Trump is expected to be in attendance Tuesday at the formal opening of a controversial immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades that state leaders have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”
The Palm Beach Post on Sunday reported that FAA data indicated that Trump would be in South Florida for the opening of the facility. Two White House officials and one Florida official familiar with the travel confirmed to NBC News Trump is “likely” to be in attendance.
The facility is located on a little-used airstrip in Miami-Dade County that Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration seized using emergency powers to build a housing facility for undocumented migrants. DeSantis issued an emergency order focused on immigration in early 2023, and he has since extended it multiple times. The measure gives him significant authority to take actions such as seizing land. Some local political leaders in Miami-Dade County opposed DeSantis taking the land for the Everglades-based detention center.
The facility was set up quickly — in roughly one week — by the DeSantis administration and was the brain child of Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, who is DeSantis’ former chief of staff and one of his top political advisers.
The Palm Beach Post on Sunday reported that FAA data indicated that Trump would be in South Florida for the opening of the facility. Two White House officials and one Florida official familiar with the travel confirmed to NBC News Trump is “likely” to be in attendance.
The facility is located on a little-used airstrip in Miami-Dade County that Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration seized using emergency powers to build a housing facility for undocumented migrants. DeSantis issued an emergency order focused on immigration in early 2023, and he has since extended it multiple times. The measure gives him significant authority to take actions such as seizing land. Some local political leaders in Miami-Dade County opposed DeSantis taking the land for the Everglades-based detention center.
The facility was set up quickly — in roughly one week — by the DeSantis administration and was the brain child of Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, who is DeSantis’ former chief of staff and one of his top political advisers.
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President Trump says, “Good morning! We're going out to Alligator Alcatraz! It's an East Coast version, and it should be very exciting... and then I'll be back here fighting for the bill."
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Wondering what an Alligator Alcatraz might look like? Here's a sneak peek.
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“I would do that. Let me ask myself permission…
Permission granted.”
Permission granted.”
