Florida is building a migrant detention center in the Everglades that state Attorney General James Uthmeier has nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz,” the Orlando Sentinel reports.
The plan to convert the 17,000-acre Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport has drawn the ire of environmentalists and Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, who slammed the plan.
“Due to the location of this parcel in a critical area, the conveyance of this parcel requires considerable review and due diligence,” Levine Cava wrote in a letter Monday to Kevin Guthrie, the state’s emergency management director under Gov. Ron DeSantis.
It “is also imperative that we fully understand the scope and scale of the proposed use of the site and what will be developed, as the impacts to the Everglades ecosystem could be devastating.”
According to the Miami Herald, DeSantis appears to have already taken control of the property.
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Author: Faith Novak
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