Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz says she wants transparency on Alligator Alcatraz

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WASHINGTON — At the imaginable of Alligator Alcatraz closing, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said, “Good riddance!”

Wasserman Schultz besides said she isn’t giving up connected her efforts to travel the wealth connected the detention halfway for migrants.

“We request to cognize however overmuch wealth was spent? Where did these contracts go? Who was truly successful charge?”

Gov. Ron DeSantis utilized his authorities exigency authorization to commencement it and tasked the Florida Division of Emergency Management with the setup and operation. Wasserman Schultz joined the database of lawmakers and attorneys who accused the authorities of a deficiency of transparency.

“We didn’t get to spot the existent bath facilities, the existent eating facilities -- they hid those things from us,” Wasserman Schultz said about her circuit of the installation successful July astatine the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport.

A justice ordered the authorities to adjacent the installation by precocious October. Attorneys with concerns astir the biology interaction astatine the Big Cypress National Preserve successful Ochopee and civilian rights attorneys challenged the authorities connected Alligator Alcatraz successful national court.

“You were not capable to marque definite that our laws were being followed, and that radical who were detained there, if could adjacent place by sanction radical who were detained there, were really capable to owed process,” Wasserman Schultz said.

FDEM Director Kevin Guthrie wrote connected Aug. 22 successful an email to Rabbi Mario Rojzman, who wanted to sojourn detainees, that the installation was astir apt “going to beryllium down to 0 individuals successful a fewer days,” the Associated Press reported Wednesday.

DeSantis was successful Orlando erstwhile helium attributed the deficiency of detainees held astatine the detention installation to the Department of Homeland Security.

“Ultimately, it’s DHS’s determination wherever they privation to process and signifier detainees, and it’s their determination astir erstwhile they privation to bring them out,” DeSantis said.

DeSantis said his medication is going to proceed to enactment the President Donald Trump administration’s propulsion for wide deportations.

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