Alligator Alcatraz, a state-run detention facility for migrants, opened on July 1 in the Florida Everglades. President Donald Trump visited the site on its opening day. Despite claims of hurricane preparedness, a rainstorm caused water to flow over electrical cables. Florida’s Department of Emergency Management is yet to complete a formal evacuation plan for the facility. Lawmakers were denied access, possibly violating state laws. Environmentalists raised concerns about the facility's construction damaging the ecosystem and avoiding required permits. Contractors involved in the project have made donations to Florida's GOP and Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Shortly after President Donald Trump left the brand new detention facility to hold immigrants in the middle of the Everglades, a garden-variety South Florida summer rainstorm started.
Environmentalists worry that the rapidly constructed facility – which they contend sidestepped all required environmental permitting – will be harmful to the animals and ecosystem that surround it.
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