Florida Attorney General Jason Uthmeier has proposed an “Alligator Alcatraz” deep within the Everglades to house illegal immigrants.
The Miami-Dade Collier Training Facility is an “abandoned airport facility right in the middle of the Everglades,” Uthmeier said in a statement, going on to say that it “presents an efficient, low-cost opportunity to build a temporary detention facility because you don’t need to invest that much in the perimeter. If people get out, there’s not much waiting for them other than alligators and pythons.”
“Nowhere to go, nowhere to hide,” he said. “Within 30 to 60 days after we begin construction, it could be up and running and could house as many as 1,000 criminal aliens.”
Governor Ron DeSantis (R) recently announced that Florida troopers were the first in the nation to receive federal credentials to arrest illegal immigrants.
The officers can now execute federal warrants and remove illegal immigrants from communities, DeSantis said during a May press conference.
“What we have now with FHP is that they can conduct immigration operations wholly independent of the federal government. And there’s no one else in the country where they’re doing that,” he said, explaining that those credentialed can “do everything that an immigration officer would do, up until the point where [criminal aliens] get processed for removal.”
Florida also saw a major ICE operation in April, an effort that led to the arrest of 1,120 criminal alien arrests.
“Every day, our officers take to the streets and put their lives on the line to apprehend and remove dangerous criminal aliens, transnational gang members and foreign fugitives who have illegally entered the U.S,” ICE Deputy Director Madison Sheahan said following the operation. We are united in our determination to restore integrity to our nation’s immigration system and enhance public safety for all Americans.”
