Environmental groups, immigration rights activists and an original American tribe were criticized the construction of a harsh outdoor migrant detention camp in Florida Evergalids was described by state officials as “Alkatraz”.
The crews began preparing the facility at a large -scale training airport this week to support Trump administrationA aggressive goal is to arrest 3,000 immigrants who are not documented every day.
It is among a number of new impressive prisons for migration and customs (ICE) It appears throughout the country As one of the interests by the agency It increases dramatically.
Florida officials say the Everglids camp, which was criticized by the member of the Democratic Congress Maxwell Frost will open a “harsh scene”, in the first week of July – a month in which the daily heat index in South Florida exceeds 100f (37.8 ° C).
It is paid by the taxpayers in Florida and the internal security funds. The project came after the state Require 39 square miles Among its owners, Miami Dead Province, under the powers of the emergency enacted by the Republican Governor, Ron Desantis. He is now facing strong opposition from the group alliance.
These groups say that housing is up to 5,000 detainees in tents in the heat and humidity of the Florida summer, in a location surrounded by marshes and wetlands that contain crocodile, burmese snakes and secrets of mosquitoes, reaching inhuman treatment.
James Othiar, the hard -said prosecutor, laughed at cash.
“We believe in the swamp here in Florida. We are swamps creatures,” he said to the conservative podcast host Benny Johnson in A. Disclosure of the scheme On Monday, which limits sarcasm.
“There is no way out. There are no outputs. The ocean that the mother nature has already identified. People come out, there is not much waiting other than snake and crocodiles.”
He said that the 11,000 -foot airport runway was ideal for large aircraft that bring dozens of uncomfortable people detained by ice from all over the United States.
“There is a lot of low fruits,” said Uthmeier, which was Hold a civil contempt by a federal judge This month to continue the enforcement of the government immigration law that it has banned.
The Indians of the Indians of Miccosukee condemned the use of the lands of its ancestors in the National Cypress for the purposes of detention, citing similarities with the mass tour of the government and the forced removal of indigenous Americans in the nineteenth century.
“The state will provide large taxpayers by following its goals in a different location with more current infrastructure and less environmental and cultural impacts on the large cypress and tribal lands,” said Talbert Cypress, head of the Miccosukee tribe, said. In a statement It was published on social media.
Environmental concerns, among other things, have sparked the friends of the Everglades group, and the mayor of Miami Dead, Daniela Levin Cava, who sent the Guardian a statement showing “its important concerns about the scope and effort of the state.”
She said that the project will have a “potentially devastating effect on Everglades”, and indicated that the government and the federal government have invested billions of dollars in Everglades restoration efforts, which are now feared.
She said: “We are still facing concerns about how a facility works on this range without effects on the surrounding ecosystem.”
Eve’s samples, Executive Director of Everglades, said that the site is not suitable for development in the 1960s, when an ambitious plan to make it a six -run corridor Everglades Jetport With Monorail Service that transport tourists to the eastern and western coasts in Florida, they were frustrated by environmental activity.
She said: “All the reasons that led to a terrible presence at that time are still present today.”
“These are the wetlands of Evergelds with valuable and reserve, and if we move forward with a prison detention facility, a thousand beds, whether temporary or not, will be traces of auxiliary development, water and sanitation effects, water supply needs, and traffic effects. These effects were analyzed before half a century, and we know that it will be negative.
“along with Assault on Florida State Gardens Last summer, and Suggestion of the rock mine To fight currently in Everglades, it indicates that the Desantis administration is far from what Floridian, the protection of Everglades and the last remaining green spaces. “
The Florida Emergency Management Department, which runs the building of the camp, nor the UTHMEIER office did not respond to the suspension requests.
Meanwhile, immigration advocates say that the Everglids camp represents an evil condensation of the already strong support for Dimanitis for the Donald Trump’s business schedule. the Tampa Bay Times mentioned On Wednesday, a second new detention facility was at the National Guard Training Center in Florida, west of Jacksonville, in business.
“He must always throw red meat on his base, and he always has to generate controversy and polarization,” said Thomas Kennedy, a spokesman for the Florida Migrant Alliance.
“Obviously, they choose the most controversial site, directly in Everglades, using a language like crocodiles and snakes, which makes it look like it will be like a medieval castle with a trench.
“There is no sufficient running water or plumbing facilities.
“He is designed for the age of suffering.”
Frost, in a statement, was called Uthmeier “Sycophant Trump”, and said that Everglades was “disgusting”.
He said: “Donald Trump explained, managed, and the empowerment factors have one thing brutally: they intend to use the government’s authority to kidnap, hunger, and harm each single immigrant they can.”
“They are targeting immigrants, tearing families, subject to people on conditions that reach physical and psychological torture. Now, they want to create tents in the burning sun and call them the enforcement of immigration. They do not care if people live or die; they only care about cruelty and scene.”
