The state Florida Started this week to build a new detention center migrantknown as ‘Alcatraz with alligators’, Inside the swamps Eberglids, with the backdrop of the anti -immigration attack launched by President Donald Trump’s government after the tycoon returned to power in January.
The location selected, an abandoned airport At the Everglids National Park, a unique ecosystem of the world, it will be able to welcome at least 1,000 immigrants, said Attorney General James Atmier last week via X.
“This area of about 77,000 acres has Everglids around it and offers an effective opportunity, not particularly expensive, to build a temporary detention center, as it is not necessary to invest much for the perimeter,” he said in a video showing the area.
If anyone escapes they will be waiting for him “alligators and pyotones”, added.
The new detention center will begin to welcome immigrants within ’30 to 60 days from the start of its construction’, According to the official.
Its operation is expected to cost around $ 450 million a year, However, the state could seek federal funding, “said Trisa Mclaflin, a spokesman for the interior security ministry (DHS) in local media.
State -conservative government ruler Ron Dessandis boasts that he is working closely with the Trump government in its program for mass expulsion of immigrants.
The US president has proclaimed the fight against irregular migration to his government’s priority, continuing to speak of “invasion” into the US “criminals coming from abroad”, and making sure that the deportations are close to the media.
“The Transfiguration of the Eberglids into a tax detention center funded by taxpayers is a grotesque mix of inhuman and political theater,” commented Alex Howard, who worked at the DHS under Biden (2021-2025), in his statements by Miami.
The Everglids friends organization, for its part, denounced the “unacceptable and unnecessary danger” to the ecosystem of more than 2,000 species of flora and fauna in a letter to Governor Dessandis.