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President Donald Trump will be in the Florida Everglades on Tuesday for the opening of a controversial Center for the detention of immigrants led by state representatives of the State, which has been faced with a vocal repression of the Democrats, Amerindian leaders And militant groups on humanitarian and environmental concerns.
The installation, nicknamed informally “Alligator Alcatraz” by state republicans, was an original idea of the attorney general of the James Uthmeier State. He received significant national attention, especially during an interview “Fox and Friends” with Governor Ron Desantis on Friday.
Desantis described the thrust as the continuous effort of Florida to align the state with Trump’s anti-immigrant repression. But Trump’s decision to participate in person, with the interior security secretary, Kristi Noem, moved part of the administration, which was to approve the plan of Florida to manage the installation.
“When the president comes tomorrow, he will be able to see the establishment, which should be ready for the operation on Tuesday,” said Desantis at a press conference on Monday.
He said he spoke to Trump this weekend and Trump was “very excited”.
Noem said last week on X: “Under the leadership of President Trump, we are working on Turbo Speed on profitable and innovative means of handing over the mandate of the American people for mass deportations of criminal illegal foreigners. We will expand the installations And bed spaces in a few days, thanks to our partnership with Florida. »»
NBC News reported for the first time Trump would attend on Sunday evening, a big boost for the effort. Noem had to approve the creation of the project and is likely to reimburse the State with significant federal funding, but until the public announcement on Monday, it was not clear how the White House officially considered the project.
There has been a significant decline on the part of democrats and immigration defenders who consider the project to be inhuman. They opposed the establishment of people whom the administration identified as undocumented in the middle of a marshes surrounded by snakes and alligators in the middle of the heat of Florida – and in an area of the state subject to hurricanes. But these reasons are the reason why Uthmeier, Desantis and other Republicans said that the installation was necessary.
The use of difficult conditions as a deterrent for unworthy residents to come in Florida is the objective, have argued the Republicans of Florida.
“They cannot be stuck in a hurricane if they self-compliment,” said Bill Helmich, executive director of the Florida Republican Party, said on x In response to the concern that the installation is in an area of the State regularly affected by hurricanes.
Environmental groups filed a federal complaint Friday at the establishment.
“This site is more than 96% of wetlands, surrounded by the large national cypress reserve, and is a habitat for Florida Panther disappearing and other emblematic species,” said Eve Samples, Friends of the Everglades ”, said in a statement. “This regime is not only cruel, it threatens the ecosystem of the Everglades that the taxpayers of the states and federals spent billions to protect.”
The problem was a political winner For the Republican in Florida. This led to an explosion in the attention of national media and a boost in the contributions of the campaign, a dynamic that led the Republican State Party to start selling goods “Alligator Alcatraz” to take advantage of the moment.
The administration of Desantis used its emergency powers to accelerate the installation of $ 450 million per year, which, according to Desantis, could contain up to 3,000 undocumented immigrants. The entire compound was built in just seven days, a process which included the construction of what is equivalent to a city of a tent, the hiring of a dozen sellers and the seizure of land close to the county of Miami-Dade on the objections of local leaders. The installation will be hosted on a little used landing track which includes a track which, according to Desantis, can be used to quickly fly undocumented immigrants to third countries if the expulsion is deemed appropriate.
The national democrats were relatively silent on the issue, but there was a campaign of pressure from the Democrats in the State, which are in the minority, to explode the plan.
“They lock people in a swamp in extreme heat without a clear plan for human conditions,” said Shevrin Jones State on Friday morning for a call with journalists organized by Florida Democrats.
