Posted on 06/28/2025 4:31:07 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A coalition of groups, ranging from environmental activists to Native Americans advocating for their ancestral homelands, converged outside an airstrip in the Florida Everglades Saturday to protest the imminent construction of an immigrant detention center.
Hundreds of protesters lined part of U.S. Highway 41 that slices through the marshy Everglades — also known as Tamiami Trail — as dump trucks hauling materials lumbered into the airfield. Cars passing by honked in support as protesters waved signs calling for the protection of the expansive preserve that is home to a few Native tribes and several endangered animal species.
Christopher McVoy, an ecologist, said he saw a steady stream of trucks entering the site while he protested for hours. Environmental degradation was a big reason why he came out Saturday. But as a South Florida city commissioner, he said concerns over immigration raids in his city also fueled his opposition.
“People I know are in tears, and I wasn’t far from it,” he said.
Florida officials have forged ahead over the past week in constructing the compound dubbed as “Alligator Alcatraz” within the Everglades’ humid swamplands.
The government fast-tracked the project under emergency powers from an executive order issued by Gov. Ron DeSantis that addresses what he views as a crisis of illegal immigration. That order lets the state sidestep certain purchasing laws and is why construction has continued despite objections from Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and local activists.
The facility will have temporary structures like heavy-duty tents and trailers to house detained immigrants. The state estimates that by early July, it will have 5,000 immigration detention beds in operation.
The compound’s proponents have noted its location in the Florida wetlands — teeming with massive reptiles like alligators and invasive Burmese pythons — make it an ideal spot for immigration detention.
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First time I’ve posted this until they make the illegal prison idea a reality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoN5-ZpBWdg
For Live and Let Die, Ross Kananga, the owner of the crocodile farm where the scene was filmed, performed the stunt himself after professional stuntmen refused—it was just too dangerous. To escape, Bond had to run across the backs of five live crocodiles. Kananga attempted it five times before getting it right. —Story on filming.
Longer version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LrbTd69iwI
Well, you have to admit: Florida is proposing to house an invasive species there at Alligator Alcatraz.
Protesters should take the places of the illegals to show solidarity of socialist workers of the world.
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they didnt mention the number of protestors
Throw them to the Gators.
I would release rogue alligators right where the protestors are. This is to rehabilitate the alligators and the protestors at the same time to keep them where they both belong.
Perfect set up. Detain, sort, process and fly out. All one stop shopping!
DeSantis is the best governor in America.
LOL
It used to be an airfield, contaminated with fuels and lubricants and solvents.
But criminal detention?
Nay.
Environmental disaster lol
Scratch 'em up good, and push 'em into the waterways, don't let 'em get out.
It’s not too late to self-deport. Self deportation seems like a really good idea.
No, and the honks were for them to get the hell out of the heat and humidity.
Reminds me of the protests on the railroad tracks of some government facility in Washington state a few decades ago. Something about nukes or nuclear energy or something.
Anyway, one of the protesters lost his legs.
It was concord in California and it was about weapons.
Although I have a slight problem with the plan. The pythons aren't getting enough respect. It should be:
"Alligator Alcatraz with the Python Perimeter."Honorable mention goes to ticks, chiggers, skeeters, cotton mouths, rattlesnakes, panthers, …
I hope a lot of them get hurt. Really hurt.
I recall that it was protestors (union/longshoremen etc, and Leftist/Communists) in the Port of Seattle at the grain container ship loading facilities.
Incoming miles long trains of grain cars from the western grain producing states were stopped and prevented from entering the loading facility which takes the grain hopper cars one by one and empties them into grain conveyor belts into the large watertight holds of grain carrying container ships for export to... wherever.
These a@@holes stopped all that for “environmental” reasons and of course endless pay increases. The Union Pacific train unions may have been in sympathy with them. It was some time ago, but you are right in remembering such a thing happened.
Hope those Soros’ protesters brought their heavy jackets.
It gets mighty cold in Florida in the summertime.
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