All posts tagged "Alligator Alcatraz"

An Alligator Alcatraz worker is blowing the whistle on "inhumane" conditions at the notorious immigrant detention facility in South Florida after working there for less than a month.

Speaking to NBC6, Lindsey, a corrections officer, said that she only wanted to give her first name out of fear of retribution against her or her family.

She confirmed she arrived at the facility on July 6 and was there for about a week before she caught COVID and was forced to isolate. ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) reportedly left county officials in the dark when he decided to create the 'Alligator Alcatraz' migrant detention facility in Southwest Florida, according to The Associated Press.

President Donald Trump toured the makeshift detention center comprised largely of FEMA tents and trailers earlier this month, claiming it would "house some of the menacing migrants, some of the most vicious people on the planet.”

AP obtained more than 100 emails revealing that "local officials were blindsided by the plans" for Collier County, "a wealthy, majority-Republican corner of the state that’s home to white-sand beaches and the western stretch of the Everglades."...

New video showed a "garden-variety South Florida summer rainstorm" flooding tents and drowning out Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) as he touted the "Alligator Alcatrez" detention facility he claimed was ready to house deportees, according to The Miami Herald.

Rain began shortly after President Donald Trump finished up his tour of the Everglades facility that the White House claimed needed little security due to pythons and alligators surrounding it, the report said.

"The water seeped into the site — the one that earlier in day the state’s top emergency chief had boasted was ready to withstand the winds of a 'high-end' Category 2 hurricane — and streamed all over electrical cables on the floor," wrote reporters Syra Ortiz Blanes, Ana Ceballos, and Alex Harris.
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Before departing for Florida on Tuesday, President Donald Trump poked fun at migrants who might try to escape the quickly constructed detention facility in the Everglades that's been dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz."

CNN's Isabel Rosales reported from the site, saying it took "a week and one day" for ICE officials to transform an airport in Ochopee, Florida, into a tent city ready to house some 5,000 detainees awaiting deportation.

"This location here in the Everglades is just under 50 miles west of Trump's resort in Miami," Rosales said, adding that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) claimed, "Not much security is needed thanks to the pythons and gators that are surrounding this facility."...