Posted on 07/06/2025 12:01:08 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
State officials said construction on the new facility could begin as soon as this week.
Florida’s first migrant detention and deportation facility — dubbed Alligator Alcatraz — has officially opened deep in the Everglades, drawing applause from Republicans and sharp condemnation from Democrats and environmental advocates.
The facility opened last Tuesday with a presidential visit and shortly after began receiving detainees.
The temporary facility, with a capacity of up to 3,000 detainees, was fast-tracked into existence just weeks after Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier pitched the idea. He insisted that detainees will be treated fairly and processed swiftly.
“We'll make sure people get the necessary due process,” Uthmeier said. “We'll get them in, get them out.”
But that reassurance hasn't quelled growing criticism. Democrats in the Florida Senate, House, and congressional delegation have voiced strong objections, especially over environmental and human rights concerns.
“Florida’s River of Grass is no place for a prison,” lawmakers wrote in a joint letter calling on Governor Ron DeSantis to shut the facility down.
"We urge you to immediately reverse course, halt construction activity, and fully withdraw the proposal to establish any detention facility at the Dade-Collier site,” said U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, in the letter. “We further request that you commit to a transparent and science-based environmental review process for any future development plans affecting the Everglades region.”
Uthmeier responded to questions about pollution and waste management, saying, “A lot of the resources are being brought in and out when it comes to food, sewage, etc. Nothing's going into the Everglades.”
Meanwhile, roughly 400 miles north, Florida is preparing to break ground on a second facility at Camp Blanding, a Florida National Guard base. State Emergency Management Director Kevin Guthrie said construction could begin as soon as the week following the holiday weekend.
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Hmmmmmm..... I wonder if Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman (Papillon) could escape the US detention centers in the floor everglades?
Just curious— how long does it take to verify their status as either lawfully in USA or illegal?
They shouldn’t need to be detained very long before repatriating or otherwise sending them along to another country willing to take them.
Temporary detention centers are probably necessary. Longer term prisons probably are not. And are too costly anyway.
<>Florida is preparing to break ground on a second facility at Camp Blanding, a Florida National Guard base.<>
I expect DeSantis to keep up the ‘gator meme.
Gator Gitmo?
Go Gators!
I presume it is like a distribution center - someone from northern goathumpistan might need to wait until there are enough other people being deported there or nearby to fill a plane.
Camp Blanding is less than an hour away from Gainesville, FL, howe of the University of Florida aka the Florida Gators.
Gator Gitmo could have more than one meaning at this location.
“Alligators to Unionize”....
That sounds just fine. As soon as the next plane to goathumpidtsn is filled up, let’s send it on its way.
RE: Papillon. I hated that movie.
Almost as much as “Se7en” (Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, 1995). A test audience woman was saying as the director walked by “The people who made this movie should be killed.” Amazing. Sadly, others disagree with her and me and the movie has become a grim cult favorite now. It does promote hopelessness.
Director Fincher: “I was told that Michael Medved [film critic at New York Post] wrote that the movie was evil, but I’m sure he slows down when he passes an accident just like everyone else.”
Another: Seven’s (never named) city is presented as a blighted, decaying zone of unfettered criminality and vice, echoing a reactionary view of urban problems concerning segments of the contemporary American middle class.
RE: escape.
Just have the Dems who are demanding to “oversee” that the rights of the guilty illegals are being upheld and the conditions are not “dehumanizing.” cooperate. One Dem outfit with the button saying member of congress can be worn by an escapee who gets in the Dem SUV for VIPs and out he goes.
Plus the old time laundry cart and food shipment trucks in and out.
Three commonly known true stories:
El Chapo: Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman escaped from Mexico’s Puente Grande maximum-security prison in 2001 by hiding in a laundry cart.
Timothy Clausen and Armon Dixon, two inmates escaped the Lincoln Correctional Center by concealing themselves in a laundry cart that was loaded onto a truck.
Kevin Matthew Perkins, a New Mexico inmate escaped in a laundry basket.
Each left in a truck carrying the laundry.
Why would another country even want them? How ‘bout Bikini Atoll?
How many have deported from that facility to date?
DESANTIS is putting otherwise wasted land to good use.
“Mr. Blanding Builds His Dream House”?
President Truml had a great idea to relocate them to an Indonesian island. They’ve got thousands and thousands of islands. Islands can be easily patrolled to assure nobody leaves. (And if we’re really lucky, it will be an island with csnnibals…/s)
Any self respecting illegal will self-deport rather than risk Aligator Alcatraz. I mean there is nothing to keep a hungry snake from slithering through that cage.
From what I understand these snakes have eaten everything and now...? Yum.
Washerwoman Schlitz can just embrace the suck
Alligatraz
Great idea send them to Haiti
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