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COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. – Processing could commencement arsenic soon arsenic Wednesday astatine the arguable state-built migrant detention installation dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”
A Local 10 News unit saw respective large rigs carrying supplies into the facility, including further concatenation nexus fencing and h2o tanks.
The installation is located astatine the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport disconnected the Tamiami Trail.
President Donald Trump, who has championed a wide deportation policy, visited the tract Tuesday.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier posted connected societal media that the authorities volition person 3,000 beds afloat functioning this week.
“We person to assistance the president present connected his committedness and deport radical backmost wherever they came from,” helium said.
The installation volition outgo Florida astir $450 cardinal annually, chiefly funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and volition usage renovated FEMA trailers.
Critics person raised biology concerns.
“This is not lone dangerous, we person spent 25 years investing billions of dollars restoring the Florida Everglades and they’re dropping a batch of infrastructure, electricity, piping, h2o successful the mediate of each of that effort,” U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Florida, said connected CNN. “It’s going to upend decades of biology restoration.”
The Republican Party of Florida is selling “Alligator Alcatraz-themed merchandise, to see trucker hats and brew koozies, amid a palpable consciousness of excitement from Trump’s loyalists who enactment the wide deportation policy.
Officials with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security accidental they’re focusing connected “criminal amerciable aliens.”
However, medication officials person presented a wide explanation of that word to accidental that those successful the state illegally are criminals.
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