Ochopee, flav. (AP) – The first group of immigrants was determined to come on Wednesday night A new detention center The state’s Attorney General said that the deep “Elegator Alkatraz” in Florida Everglades has been termed.
Florida Republican Attorney General James Uthameyer said on the social platform X, “Tonight there will be an investigation of Elegator Alkatra in hundreds of criminal illegal aliens.”
It was not clearly clear when the captives would come or where they were coming from. Officials said they were being brought to the facility in buses.
FacilityAccording to the Republican village Ron Desantis, at an airport used for training, there will be a capacity of about 3,000 prisoners if it is fully operational. The center was built in more than 10 miles (16 km) of Everglades in eight days. It features more than 200 security cameras, over 28,000 feet (8,500 m) thorny wire and 400 security personnel.
According to an official of the Trump administration, under the 287 (G) program of the federal government, the migrants arrested by the Florida Law Enforcement Officers will be taken to the convenience. 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,
According to the official, the feature is expected to work with 500 to 1,000 beds within days, which were not authorized to publicly speak about the details of the detention facility. It should be extended to 500 bed increases until it is 5,000 beds in early July.
Environmental groups and original American tribes have Protested against the centerIt is a danger to the delicate Everglaids system, cruel to prisoners due to heat and mosquitoes, and on the ground that consider tribes holy.
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.
Officials of desntis and other state say that finding of facility in rugged and remote fluorida evils is as a preventive, and then 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. Associated press correspondents Gissela Solomon in Miami and Kate Payne in Talhasi, Florida contributed.
Kurt Anderson and Marta Lavandier, Associated Press