Fla. Building ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ to Hold Illegals

Fla. Building 'Alligator Alcatraz' to Hold Illegals

Fla. Building ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ to Hold Illegals

Florida is building a migrant detention center in the Everglades that state Attorney General James Uthmeier has nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz,” the Orlando Sentinel reports.

The plan to convert the 17,000-acre Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport has drawn the ire of environmentalists and Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, who slammed the plan.

“Due to the location of this parcel in a critical area, the conveyance of this parcel requires considerable review and due diligence,” Levine Cava wrote in a letter Monday to Kevin Guthrie, the state’s emergency management director under Gov. Ron DeSantis.

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