Social media has been buzzing lately over Florida’s announcement that it plans to build a 5,000-bed detention center for illegal aliens in the heart of the Everglades – what supporters and critics alike are calling “Alligator Alcatraz.” The facility will be used to house illegal aliens while they await deportation and will be on property owned by Miami-Dade County.
The land for Alligator Alcatraz is about 30 square miles in size and is located on an old air strip between Collier County and Miami-Dade County. The facility is expected to cost approximately $450 million per year to operate. The state government can seek financial assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to operate the detention center. The money will come from a FEMA fund used by the Biden administration to pay outside groups to house illegal aliens.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier recently explained that the detention center would only take a few weeks to complete. Rather than building a brick-and-mortar facility, the state will be using heavy duty tents and trailers. Perhaps best of all, it won’t require high-tech, expensive fencing or other barriers like most prisons. “If people get out, there’s not much waiting for them other than alligators and pythons,” Uthmeier explained.
Uthmeier also said that the federal government has already approved the detention center, meaning that construction can begin soon – perhaps opening as soon as the first week of July. “It’s a location we’ve been looking at with law enforcement for a while,” Uthmeier said. “It’s about 30 square miles down in South Florida, and it presents a unique opportunity for a low-cost detention facility because the perimeter is set by Mother Nature. A lot of people thought it was just a joke, but no, we are serious. We care about immigration enforcement. We’re leading in helping the federal government.”
Florida’s new facility will allow the administration to increase its maximum capacity significantly. The Sunshine State has been a particular area of focus for ICE, as Florida law enforcement has been more than eager to work with the Trump administration on immigration enforcement efforts.
Alligator Alcatraz is part of the Trump administration’s plan to have local authorities help increase detention capacity. This would provide the administration with additional aid without straining the federal government’s resources.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem praised the White House’s partnership with Florida in a post on X.
“Under President Trump’s leadership, we are working at turbo speed to deliver cost-effective and innovative ways to deliver on the American people’s mandate for mass deportations of criminal illegal aliens,” she said. “We will expand facilities and bed space in just days, thanks to our partnership with Florida.”
She added that the new detention center in the Everglades will “in large part be funded by FEMA’s Shelter and Services Program, which the Biden administration used as a piggy bank to spend hundreds of millions of American taxpayer dollars to house illegal aliens, including at the Roosevelt Hotel that served as a Tren de Aragua base of operations and was used to shelter Laken Riley’s killer.”
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It appears there were no consequences for those who have chosen illegal immigration simply because the past administration ignored our laws. Now that law has been re-established, the task to undo that debacle isn’t easy. The FEMA camps that once was rumored a solution for Americans critical of government policies has been repurposed, ironically rebranded by the same left as now inhumane.
What an innovative idea! Brings back the castle moats of old.
Residents should catch their own meat, as a contribution to their keep, this is not vacation.
Brings back fond memories of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s tent city. I knew the bleeding-heart liberals would make sure it was removed. The horrors! Forced to wear pink undies and get fed bologna sandwiches! No air conditioning! Cruel and unusual punishment! I wish Florida all the luck in the world. Maybe it will catch on with other states.
That’s a pretty heavy price tag. See you later, alligator.
Will now that eliminate a costly security measure! Keep to minimum !
AA Features Id add:
Razor wire
Remote gun towers
diving board into swamp
AC Huts for Guards & staffing
Drone air patrol
Main CP Center
Roving patrol
Storage center
Well, that’s one way to keep them from escaping from the law.
Leave it to Republican leadership to find ways to save tax payer’s money, unlike Democrat’s who house them in “hotels” while our own people are homeless. See the difference in policies, between these two parties? You have to be brainwashed or uninformed to still vote for Democs.
Beautiful and I LOVE IT. It’ll be a great place to put Obama, Clinton and all the liberal far left criminal democrats. Hey, the Gators and Pythons need to eat to and will make terrific guards, and they work for free. LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sounds like the best deterrent to a ‘break out’ ever. And the fact it’s a lot less expensive to build is also a plus. Interesting how Nature can be used to help the legal process.
Great idea Florida. Thanks for coming up with an economical place to keep this scum of the earth before we send them back from whence they came.
Great place for them but watch the Democrats will be crying because the stick up for them they will call it cruel just like everything they do out of hate for President Trump.
I hope it does not change put them there then deport them.
Gators will have plenty to eat
Funny! LOL
if you build it you will fill it.a field of dreams for legal Americans’ protection.
Awesome idea:
& they should-WORK !!!
Or {No}]:
Food
BUT:
JUST Bread & Water !!!!!!!
What if the gators find these illegals distasteful and do not even approach them?
sounds great but what about hurricane protection for the illegals.
I think Kermie might want to call in sick for that gig!