1 day ago
8
Hot Topic
On July 1, President Trump toured Florida's caller migration detention camp, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," located successful the Florida Everglades. Along with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis during a property conference, they touted however rapidly the installation was acceptable up: successful conscionable nether 8 days.
ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images
(If you, too, are squinting trying to work President Trump's hat, I zoomed successful connected it — and it says "GULF OF AMERICA: Yet Another TRUMP Development.")
For a small background, Governor DeSantis utilized an emergency order to prehend the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport country from Miami-Dade County, and CBS reports that it was paid for by funds from "FEMA's structure and services program, an inaugural created by Congress to enactment groups and cities receiving migrants and asylum-seekers released from national custody on the U.S.-Mexico border."
ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images
According to CBS, the "facility volition person up to respective 1000 beds to house, process and deport individuals who were successful the state illegally."
Environmental groups person already filed suit to halt the detention halfway from opening until a afloat biology reappraisal has been completed.
Well, it looks similar each that speedy gathering whitethorn person resulted successful immoderate less-than-ideal conditions. Anna Eskamani, a Democrat congressperson representing Florida's 42nd district, shared a video connected TikTok illustrating what the spot looks similar already:
A summer rainstorm during the property league caused h2o to seep underneath the structure and onto the floors (around a clump of electrical cords, nary less).
@annaforflorida / Via tiktok.com
Anna said successful a caption connected the video, "Flooding already happening astatine the Trump/DeSantis interment campy successful the Everglades that is costing america much than $450M. Not lone is this an biology disaster, but it is inhumane & not adjacent adjacent to being safe! We bash NOT request this! Imagine if this clip and wealth went into affordable lodging instead."
Hot Topic
Let's chat astir each things Politics
See our Politics Discussions
Here's adjacent much water, pooling successful beforehand of the door.
Unsurprisingly, commenters did not clasp thing back. "Let the upwind and incompetence bash the occupation earlier anyone is sent there."
"they ever look to person wealth to wounded people. but wealth for nationalist transit, oregon schools, oregon assemblage wellness care? atrocious we're broke."
"Imagine gathering thing successful a swamp and expecting it not to flood."
"Can you ideate what would hap successful a hurricane?"
The video besides made its mode implicit to Twitter (X), wherever radical continued to stock their thoughts. "The flooding astatine 'Alligator Alcatraz' is simply a glaring illustration of the systemic neglect and quality rights violations inherent successful migrant detention centers."
@RichardAngwin / Via x.com
"Aren't determination STANDARDS for what constitutes a 'detention center'?"
@MemberBlasts / Via x.com
"'We finished it successful 1 week'. This is what you get erstwhile you bash things half-assed. Just similar the policies..."
@kpelechrinis / Via x.com
Regarding the rainfall successful the area, the section Naples Daily News reported that it gets astir 60 inches of rainfall per year. And anterior to the flooding, State Division of Emergency Management Executive Director Kevin Guthrie told them that "the untested tract constructed successful 8 days tin withstand Category 2 winds of 110 mph, importantly little than the 3 large storms that impacted Southwest Florida the past 3 years." However, the National Park Service says that the "Everglades National Park lies wrong 1 of the astir progressive hurricane areas of the United States."
STAN HONDA / AFP via Getty Images
The Miami Herald also reported in precocious June that "In the lawsuit of a hurricane, Division of Emergency Management officials [said] that detainees and unit would beryllium evacuated from the site. The bureau added that it is processing a catastrophe plan."
After yesterday's rainstorm, the Tampa Bay Times reported that Stephanie Hartman, the lawman manager of communications for the Division of Emergency Management, said the issues had been resolved. “Overnight, the vendors went backmost and tightened immoderate seams astatine the basal of the structures that allowed h2o intrusion during the dense storm, which was minimal.”
If you'd similar to ticker the afloat video, you tin bash truthful below. And I'd emotion to know: what bash you think? Do you person concerns astir this caller detention center? Let america cognize successful the comments.
Flooding already happening astatine the Trump/DeSantis interment campy successful the Everglades that is costing america much past $450M. Not lone is this an biology catastrophe but it is inhumane & not adjacent adjacent to being safe!
♬ archetypal dependable - annaforflorida@annaforflorida / Via tiktok.com
English (US) ·