Federal authorities ceased sending immigrants to the Everglades detention center and began moving detainees to other facilities following a preliminary injunction. The Florida Division of Emergency Management spent about $218 million on construction of the site, which had capacity for 2,000 detainees. The facility housed roughly 1,000 people in mid-August but held about 330 detainees last week. A Department of Homeland Security official defended the mass deportation program and criticized the court order. Environmental groups filed a lawsuit alleging failure to complete a required environmental-impact study prior to construction.
We are working at turbo speed on cost-effective and innovative ways to deliver on the American people's mandate for mass deportations of criminal illegal aliens. This activist judge's order is yet another attempt to prevent the president from fulfilling the American people's mandate to remove the worst of the worst - including gang members, murderers, pedophiles, terrorists, and rapists from our country. Not to mention this ruling ignores the fact that this land has already been developed for a decade,
TALLAHASSEE - Federal officials are complying with a judge's order and have stopped sending immigrants to a detention center in the Everglades, less than two months after Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration launched the facility dubbed Alligator Alcatraz in support of President Donald Trump's mass deportation efforts.
The first immigrants were sent to the facility, which had a capacity for 2,000 detainees, in early July, and about 1,000 people were housed there in mid-August. The population at the detention center dwindled to about 330 last week, court records showed.
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