Posted on 07/25/2025 10:41:58 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The first deportation flights out of a temporary detention center in the Florida Everglades began this week, with hundreds of people departing the state — including some who were eventually sent out of the country, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said Friday.
About 100 people previously detained at the Florida center “have fully been deported,” DeSantis said, without specifying where they were sent. The Department of Homeland Security is organizing the departures, he said, adding that two or three “removal flights” have left Florida so far with plans to continue them.
Some of the flights went to a federal immigration site in Louisiana first then “to another place,” DeSantis said.
“There’s an aggressive … deportation schedule,” DeSantis said. “That’s what you’re seeing is starting to occur here down at Alligator Alcatraz.”
Garrett Ripa, the Miami field director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said those flown out of the country were “illegally present in the state of Florida.” The officials spoke from the Florida detention center, with the protected Everglades wetlands as a backdrop.
DeSantis defended the hastily built facility from criticism that it is unsafe for detainees and will harm the environment. The detention camp is in the Big Cypress National Preserve and next to Everglades National Park.
DeSantis said the facility can hold 2,000 people but can be expanded “as needed.” An estimated 750 to 900 detainees are being held there now.
The detention center was constructed near an infrequently used airstrip that has been at the site for 50 years. DeSantis said its location is “sensible” and allows for detainees to quickly be loaded onto deportation flights.
“You don’t have to drive them an hour to an airport. You go a couple thousand...
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Going home to drink their homeland’s toilet water
yes! thank you Gov. Ron.
Well, Bye!
They should use low-flying, glass-bottom planes.
Bye, bye, you parasitic illegal-losers. Do not come back! OUT! GET OUT!!!
It’s a win - we need more planes... get all of them out of our country and back home.
NO MORE ILLEGALS - LEGAL IMMIGRANTS WELCOME
NO MORE DOPE PUSHERS - LEGAL PHARMACISTS WELCOME
NO MORE BURGLARS - INVITED GUESTS WELCOMED.
Since we’re told Alligator Alcatraz is such a terrible place, these guests should be overjoyed to be leaving and going back to their wonderful home countries.
I suspect this means they were allowed to keep their appendages.
“have fully been deported,”
I shudder to think what a partial deportation entails.
With bombay doors
That was always the plan.
I thought AA despoiled a pristine, virginal wetlands area, while the Italian Indian shed a single tear.
And, if any are lost track of: “Oopsie, that guy tried to escape”.
It was built in the middle of nowhere as an airport for supersonic aircraft so sonic booms would be away from the population.
Needless to say, it never lived up to its purpose.
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