The first group of immigrants has arrived A new detention center The deepest at the Florida Everglades has termed the “Elegator Alkatraz”, a spokesperson of the Republican State Attorney General James Uthmeyer told the Associated Press.
“People are there,” Press Secretary J Williams said, although he immediately did not give much information or when he arrived, he did not give much information.
“Next stop: From where he came back,” Uthmeyer said on the X social media platform on Wednesday. He is credited as a architect behind the Everglades offer.
“Standing in record time @Govrondesantis In leadership and coordination @Ddhsgov And @CegovProud to help make fluorida facilitated @Realdonaldtrump Mission to implement the immigration law, “The account for the Florida Division of Emergency Management has been posted on Thursday at the Social Media Site X. Request for additional information from Republican village office.
Facility, At an airport used for training, around 3,000 detainees will have an initial capacity, said desntis. The center was built in eight days and features more than 200 security cameras, over 28,000 feet (8,500 m) thorny wire and 400 security personnel.
According to an official of President Donald Trump’s administration, the unconscious government’s 287 (G) program will be taken to the convenience of the immigrants arrested by the Florida Law Enforcement Officers. The program has led Immigration and Customs Enforcement And allows police officers to interrogate migrants in their custody and take them into custody Potential exile,
This facility is expected to expand to 500 bed increases until the estimated 5,000 beds are not an estimated until the beginning of July.
A group of Florida Democratic State MPs on Thursday led the convenience to “visit an official legislative site”, citing concerns about the conditions for prisoners, and citing millions of dollars in state contracts for construction.
The legislators said, “As MPs, we have both legal rights and moral responsibility to inspect this site, demand an answer and to highlight this misuse before becoming a national blueprint.”
Federal agencies on Thursday indicated their protest, demanding to stop operations at the detention center for a lawsuit brought by environmental groups. Although Trump appreciated the Center during an official visit early this week, the filing on behalf of the Homeland Security Department tried to remove his administration from the convenience, and said that no federal money has been spent on it.
“DHS has not implemented, authorized, directed or funded to the temporary detention center of Florida. Under the Emergency Authority of Florida, the state is constructing and operating the facility using the state land on the state land and is constructing a general delegation of the Federal Authority to implement the immigration operations, called” US FAILING.
Human rights advocates and native American tribes also have Protested against the center, It is a danger to the delicate Everglades system, cruel to prisoners due to heat and mosquitoes, and that on the ground consider tribes to be sacred.
It is located at one place, which is caused by continuous heavy rains, causing some floods in the tent on Tuesday, marking its inauguration during the visit of President Donald Trump. State officials say the complex may withstand a category 2 storm, which packs the winds between 96 and 110 miles per hour (154 and 177 km per hour), and contractors worked overnight to shore to the areas where floods occurred.
According to the images shared with AP, on Wednesday night, workers gave new indications with “Elegator Alkatraz”, which leave the site with the sole highway and out of the airfield entrance, known as dead-coalier training and transition airports. State officials seized the county -owned land, where the facility is located using emergency powers authorized by an executive order issued by the Governor.
Officials of desntis and other state say that finding the feature in rugged and remote fluorida evils is as a preventive – and after that naming Notorious federal jail Alkatraz, an island fort, which is known for its cruel circumstances, is to send a message. This is another indication that the Trump administration and its colleagues are relying Scary strategy Trying to persuade people in the country to leave it illegally.
State and federal officials have postponed plans on social media and orthodox airways, sharing a meme of a compound ringing with prickly wire and “protected” by crocodiles wearing a “ice” cap for immigration and customs enforcement. Florida’s Republican Party has taken the detention center to raise money, branded T-shirts and beer coozes have been associated with the name of convenience.
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Anderson reported from St. Petersburg, Florida. Payne reported from Talhasi, Florida. Associated press reporters Gissela Soloman contributed to Miami.
Kurt Anderson and Kate Payne, Associated Press