Posted on 06/27/2025 1:38:11 PM PDT by packagingguy
Environmental groups Friday filed a federal lawsuit seeking to halt construction and operation of a detention center for undocumented immigrants that has been dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” saying it threatens ecologically sensitive areas and species in the surrounding Everglades and Big Cypress National Preserve.
The lawsuit, filed by the group Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity, alleges that federal and state agencies have violated laws that, in part, require evaluating potential environmental impacts before such a project can move forward.
“The hasty transformation of the site into a mass detention facility, which includes the installation of housing units, construction of sanitation and food services systems, industrial high-intensity lighting infrastructure, diesel power generators, substantial fill material altering the natural terrain, and provision of transportation logistics (including apparent planned use of the runway to receive and deport detainees) poses clear environmental impacts,” the lawsuit said. “The defendants, in their rush to build the center, have unlawfully bypassed the required environmental reviews. The direct and indirect harm to nearby wetlands, wildlife and air and water quality, and feasible alternatives to the action, must be considered under NEPA (a federal law known as the National Environmental Policy Act) before acting.”
The project has drawn national attention as Florida officials say they are trying to help President Donald Trump crack down on illegal immigration. DeSantis has brushed off arguments that the facility could harm the environment, saying Wednesday that opponents are “trying to use the Everglades as a pretext for the fact that they oppose immigration enforcement.”
“It isn’t like we are going to start doing permanent sewer and all the other things,” DeSantis said. “It’s all temporary. We’ll set it up and we’ll break it down. This isn’t our first rodeo. The impact will be zero.”
It’s about throwing a monkey wrench into anything Trump is doing.
He was right when he said if he found a cure for cancer they couldn’t find it in themselves to give him credit.....and destroying Iran’s nuclear program is a great example.
EXACTLY
Now that's funny! I wouldn't be surprised to see a lefty loon dressed as a gator show up to file the case.
There goes the neighborhood.
They go to extraordinary lengths to let everybody know how virtuous, empathetic and compassionate they are, and how willing and prepared they are to defend those who (they feel) can’t fend for themselves. Cue the halos! /s
Miccosukee Indian Village?
Solution: Set up the detention center and fill it with thousands of diseased migrant invaders...
Also, build no fences around it so that the environmentally challenged alligators and invasive pythons can have free and rapid access to the entire facility...
No need for continuing to pollute the air with all those airplanes landing and taking off...
A win-win environmentally safe solution...
Now the crazy dems are putting reptiles above people. They’re nuts.
The environmentalists don’t seem to care how badly the illegals trashed the border of our country during their mass invasion of our country.
It will help the local environment. The gators and pythons will become well fed and we will be saved the trouble of flying them out.
I was certain this was the Babylon Bee!
You are right. Counting illegals has given many blue states more representation than they deserve.
It’s already there. Stop this crap if opposing everything.
Are these the same groups that fought for years in the Western States preventing them from harvesting dead trees and brush and then went into hiding when massive fires erupted and destroyed the whole forest?
“The lawsuit, filed by the group Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity, alleges that federal and state agencies have violated laws that, in part, require evaluating potential environmental impacts before such a project can move forward.”
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OK.
Sounds a little thin.
If they were to, oh, actually live in that part of the Everglades (swamp) documenting the “impact” they are having on the Gators, snakes, mosquitoes etc.
A year ought to do it.
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Watermelons...green on the outside, red on the inside.
:)
No standing.
They are afraid eating illegals will be bad for the gators.
If Trump said the sun rises in the east, they’d argue with him.
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