Environmental groups file lawsuit to halt ‘Alligator Alcatraz' detention center

NBC Miami ^ | June 27, 2025 | News Service of Florida

[packagingguy]

Well this didn't take long. DeSantis is right, the real issue is that it's a lock-up for much anticipated future Democrat voters, even though the facility is only temporary.

[SpaceBar]

The illegals threaten the ecologically sensitive area called the United States.

[metmom]

BS. It’s not about the environment. There are already facilities there.

They’re just leftists who love criminals, the worse, the better. The environmental aspect is just an excuse to virtue signal will and feign innocence about their support of violent illegal invaders.

[Dr. Sivana]

According to Co-Pilot AI:

Yes, there had been an airport at the site now dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.” The location is the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, a 39-square-mile facility deep in the Florida Everglades. Originally, it was part of a wildly ambitious 1960s plan to build the world’s largest jetport, with six-mile-long runways and a new city rising around it2.

Only one runway was ever completed before the project was halted due to fierce opposition from environmentalists, Native American tribes, and conservationists like Marjory Stoneman Douglas. That lone airstrip—virtually abandoned for decades—is now being repurposed as a migrant detention center, earning it the nickname “Alligator Alcatraz”2.

So yes, the bones of an airport were there long before the current controversy took flight.

[hal ogen]

Typical leftist-loser move...whine to the court. No standing!

[ConservativeMind]

Sorry, but you have no standing.

The lawsuit must be formally filed by an alligator living immediate around the location.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The “required environmental reviews” would be done by 2050. What’s the big deal?

[DIRTYSECRET]

My friends we all know it’s the environuts who are the most whacko. We need to push their buttons more as the blacks and latinos come around to our way. Exposing the girlie-men and the Karens can only help.

LGBTQ? They don’t need our help just more air time.

[Libloather]

If it gives alligators indigestion, how would they know?

[Dilbert San Diego]

What’s with this Alligator Alcatraz name?

Using the name of a famous prison seems to be implying that this place is a prison.

So do the liberals think that this place is a prison?

From what I hear, aliens will be processed there. They will be treated humanely. They will be accorded due process. We’ve been lectured recently about how illegal aliens deserve due process. Well they will be getting due process.

So what is the exact complaint?

[metmom]

They should be so concerned for the environmental impact of the trash trails the illegals leave crossing the border.

[Lazamataz]

One of Nixon’s two biggest mistakes: The EPA.

[rktman]

Ignore, proceed.

[Lazamataz]

So do the liberals think that this place is a prison? From what I hear, aliens will be processed there. They will be treated humanely. They will be accorded due process. We’ve been lectured recently about how illegal aliens deserve due process. Well they will be getting due process.

So what is the exact complaint?

Trump.

[jacknhoo]

The illegal alien invasion is a national emergency. Suck it up, buttercups!

[V_TWIN]

To late....it’s already built.

[TexasGator]

“the real issue is that it’s a lock-up for much anticipated future Democrat voters”

The issue is not voting, it is the 2030 census. Removing illegals from blue states will result in a bunch of lost congressional seats.

[Lockbox]

Find their home addresses, send them some illegals to live there! Have a good day!

[ptsal]

bkmk

[alloysteel]

These liberals should think further into the future. When they regain power (a real possibility, given the way things go awry in the various election and judicial venues), the facilities will make an excellent holding center for a “re-education camp” for unregenerate and recalcitrant “deniers” of the virtues of social democracy, under the restored DEI statutes.

They just have to pick the right people to run the new order when it is brought to fruition.

(Do I HAFTA include the < /sarcasm > tag?}