Federal officials said on June 24 that the immigration detention facility located at an isolated airport from Evergels is surrounded by mosquitoes, broadcasters, and filled with crocodiles, just days of operation.
Florida officials are building what they called “Alcatraz” to help implement the collective deportation agenda of President Donald Trump, and they are working to build a boat of hard tents, trailers and temporary buildings similar to the sites used during natural disasters.
Building the attachment in wetlands remotely and environmentally sensitive is about 45 miles to the west from the center of Miami, as well as human rights advocates who criticized the plan as elbows and inhumanity.
State officials say that installation is crucial to support the immigration campaign from the federal government, which led to a record number of frustrations, as a total of more than 56,000 migrants in June, which is more than 2019.
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5,000 detention beds by early July
The construction of the site in the days of summer dogs is part of the state plan to operate 5,000 immigration detention beds by early July, according to the Public Prosecutor at Florida James Utiar, the former chief of staff of Republican Governor Ron Desantis and the main architect of the campaign to enforce the state’s aggressive immigration. Mr. Uthmeier helped coordinate the state -funded trips for about 50 Venezuelane to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, in 2022.
In the eyes of Florida state officials, the harsh conditions surrounding the landing of the far -turgal aircraft and its runway with a length of approximately 10,500 feet make it an ideal location for harboring and transporting migrants.
“We do not need to build a lot of bricks and mortar shells,” said Mr. Othmieer in an interview with conservative media commentator Benny Johnson. “Fortunately, the mother nature does a lot on the ocean.”
“There is no place to go to it really. If you are there, and if you are being held there, there is no way, and there is no way out.”
The Trump administration wants more than twice the current 41,000 beds to detain migrants to at least 100,000 beds.
The draft tax cutting and reconciliation law for the US House of Representatives includes 45 billion dollars over a period of four years for migrant detention, which is three times an increase in spending. The Senate is now considering this legislation.
Democrats and activists dismantle the plan
More than 50 years ago, environmental defenders, including Margori Stoniman Douglas, gathered to stop the same extension of the Earth to what was the largest airport in the world.
Now, activists gather to stop what some critics have described as a “stealing” of the country.
“It is surrounded by the National Park and the National Reserve of Big Sri. This land is part of one of the most fragile ecosystems in the country,” and reads a statement from the invitation group from Evergels. “Let’s not repeat the mistakes of the past. This land deserves permanent protection.”
The American Democratic Democrat, Maxwell Frost, condemned the detention center, describing its clear use of crocodiles as a “harsh scene” security scale.
“Donald Trump has made clear, his administration, and the empowerment factors brutally: they intend to use the government’s authority to kidnap, quarrel, and direct, and harm every immigrant they can – because they have deep contempt for immigrants and use them in serious issues facing workers in the statement.
Maria Assason Bilbao, the Florida campaign coordinator on the American Friends Service Committee, a group of immigration advocacy, warned that the health and safety of detainees are at risk.
“What is happening is anxiety, the level of abstraction from humanity,” said Ms. Bilbao. “It is like a play for cruelty.”
Ms. Bilbao, who leads a group of immigration defenders who help immigrants at a ice offices in southern Florida, said she is concerned about the health risks of heat and mosquitoes, and the challenges he faces remotely to the site for community members in the hope of protesting activities or monitoring there.
DHS supports the initiative
Officials of the US Department of Internal Security praised this effort and “the agency’s partnership with Florida.”
The Minister of National Security, Christie Naim, said that the new facility will be largely funded by the shelter and services program within the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or Fema, which is famous for responding to hurricanes and other natural disasters.
“We are working at a speed of turbo on costly and innovative ways to provide the American people’s authorization to collective deportation of criminal foreigners.” “We will expand the facilities and bed space in a few days.”
An American official said the facility “through a team of sellers” will cost $ 245 for the bed a day or about 450 million dollars annually. Florida will incur these expenses and pay by FEMA, which has a refuge box and a service program worth $ 625 million.
The migrants who were arrested by law enforcement employees in Florida will be considered under the Federal 287 (G) program in the facility, as well as immigrants detained in the enforcement of American migration and beauty, or ICE.
Under the revival of the 287 (G) program, local law enforcement employees in the state can interrogate migrants in their seizure and detention for possible deportation.
More than 280 agreements were signed by agencies in all 67 provinces of Florida, which amounted to more than a third of an agreement 720 in the country.
Florida uses emergency powers to build the site
State officials are leading the land using emergency powers, according to an executive order issued by Mr. Disantes during the then Joe Biden administration to respond to what the ruler considered a crisis caused by illegal immigration.
Florida is moving forward with construction on the territory owned by the province due to the fears of the mayor of Miami Dead Daniela Levin Cava, local activists, and indigenous American tribal leaders who consider the region holy.
By relying on executive orders, the state is able to avoid laws to buy the project, which Nikki Farid, head of the Democratic Party in Florida, said that he is up to the abuse of power.
Orders give a sweeping authority to the head of the state’s emergency department, Kevin Gutry, including the ability to suspend “any law, rule, or order” is seen as slowing the response in the event of emergency, and the ability to put the law enforcement staff chosen from all parts of the state according to his “direct and coordination.”
“The ruler Desantis has insisted that, under his leadership, the federal government will facilitate the enforcement of the immigration law,” said a spokesman for Mr. Desantes in a statement.
“Florida will continue to lead the immigration application.”
This story was reported by Associated Press. AP Gisela Salomon writer contributed to this report.
