President Donald Trump traveled to Florida Tuesday to visit ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ the new, quickly constructed immigrant detention center that will hold up to 5,000 foreign nationals facing deportation.
“Very soon, this facility will house some of the most menacing migrants, some of the most vicious people on the planet,” Trump said at a panel Tuesday.
The facility – which might ultimately look more like a deportation camp – is the nearly 40-square-mile Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in Miami-Dade County. Nestled amidst the wetlands of the Big Cypress National Preserve and with a nearly 11,000-foot runway, it was selected to be quickly transformed into a deportation site. It is typically used for military training.
Hundreds of tents with beds are being set up to house about 5,000 migrants making the location America’s largest state-run deportation facility. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis used his emergency authority to assist the federal government in its mass deportation efforts by preparing the site. Running the site will reportedly cost Florida about $450 million for one year, according to a Department of Homeland Security official, to be mostly reimbursed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
“This facility here is a fantastic representation of what can happen when all of government works together and when it’s accountable to the taxpayers and citizens that live here,” said DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, who also visited the site Tuesday.
“This facility is exactly what I want to consider every single governor in this country to consider doing with us.”
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Author: Ray Hilbrich
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