Florida is rapidly building an immigration detention facility near Everglades airfield to support President Trump's mass deportation agenda, aiming for 5,000 detention beds operational by July. Named "Alligator Alcatraz" due to its remote location and harsh environmental conditions, this facility has drawn criticism from environmentalists and human rights advocates, who deem the project cruel. Florida officials insist the site is necessary to handle the rising number of immigrant detentions, which peaked at more than 56,000 last month, the highest since 2019.
"We don't need to build a lot of brick and mortar," Uthmeier said in an interview, emphasizing the natural barriers surrounding the facility make it ideal for detaining migrants.
The construction of the facility is alarming environmentalists as well as human rights advocates who have slammed the plan as cruel and inhumane.
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