Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration opened the facility last July to support the immigration crackdown by the administration of President Donald Trump.
A bicyclist rides past the sign at the front entrance of the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” on June 1 in Ochopee, Fla.
Detainees at Florida’s immigration detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” have been transferred to other facilities, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said Tuesday. Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.
“As we enter into hurricane season, ICE and the state of Florida have moved illegal aliens from the soft sided facility. For the safety of the illegal alien detainees, we transferred them to other facilities,” ICE said in a statement. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration opened the facility last July to support the immigration crackdown by the administration of President Donald Trump.
“The state doesn’t direct people there, it’s DHS that directs them there. And so if DHS stops directing them there, then we obviously are not just going to, it was never meant to be permanent,” he said.
“I don’t think that it’s empty now, at least as of yesterday when I got briefed on it, but they’ve had tens, hundreds of billions of dollars plowed into that agency. ”DeSantis said the facility was always meant to be a temporary detention center and said the state is being reimbursed by the federal government for over $600 million for the facility.
“I think when we did it we thought that it would be six months to a year in terms of the necessity of it,” DeSantis said Tuesday.
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