In an aerial absorption of a helicopter, the migrant haltzentrum “Alligator Alcatraz” is located on July 4, 2025 in Ochopee, Florida, at the site of the airport for Dade collier training and transition airport. (Photo by Alon Skuy/Getty Images)
Washington – When the Trump government runs through state partnerships to expand the adhesion for migration background across the country, more than 60 democratic legislators urged the best immigration officers on Wednesday to find details on a quickly erected facility in the Florida Everglades, which the Republicans refer to as “Alligator ALCATRAZ”.
“The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has the construction of this expansionary prison status that violate human rights of the detained people in order to violate human rights and violates the Federal Act to endanger human rights, violate the Federal Act in order to endanger human rights in order to endanger and violate human rights to violate and violate human rights to violate the federal law “in order to violate the construction of this wide-ranging detention center and violate the federal law to violate the federal law to carry Homeland security. ” After the letter Signed by 65 democratic congress members.
The letter takes place according to the US immigration and customs authority on Tuesday announced a partnership With the state of Nebraska, a 300-bed immigration center opened for his version of “Alligator Alcatraz” as “Cornhusker CLINK”.
Another facility in Bunker Hill, Indiana, The nickname “Speedway Slammer” is built to keep 1,000 immigrants.
The Democrats spoke the letter to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, the DHS office of the General Inspector Joseph V. Cuffari, the reigning acting director of the US immigration and customs director Todd Lyons and inventoring head of Fema David Richardson.
DHS did not answer the Democrats’ letter to Stand’s Newsroom.
Laws in Florida
While the Trump government aims to carry out its plans for mass deportations, partnerships with states to detain immigrants for removal are decisive, but also opposition.
The facility in the Everglades, in which state and federal civil servants want to record up to 5,000 immigrants, is currently faced with legal contestation before a federal court for immigration lawyers for allegations of circumscribed access to lawyers for prisoners.
There is also a second lawsuit by environmental groups and the Miccosukee tribe to build the location of the location, and argues that they violate the federal environmental laws.
“Experts fear that this new model for state immigration authorities will enable Florida to create an” independent, non -accountable prison system “that runs in parallel with the federal finding system,” says the letter.
Other states follow Florida’s leadership?
The Democrats also said concerns that the facility in the Everglades would serve as a model for other states.
“Apart from human rights and problems with proper procedures, this plan raises serious environmental concerns,” says the letter.
In the letter, the Democrats ask for information about the legal authority for the State of Florida in order to build and operate a migrant work. the agreement between the state and the DHS in connection with the operation of the facility; And measures are taken that are ensured that neat water, food, temperature regulation and medical care are intended for prisoners.
“Human rights experts have convicted the plan as” cruel and inhumane “by design”, the letter says. “The construction was continued at” Turbo speed “, and it remains unclear whether the facility is planning to ensure that the medical care, quick evacuation of the hurricane, access to lawyer and an adequate infrastructure for waste water, flowing water and temperature controls, even though it is located in one of the hottest parts of the state.”
Democrats are also looking for inspection reports, environmental review documents and contracts from private providers who operate the facility.
The letter asks for an answer by September 3.
The democratic senators who have signed the letter include: Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden from Oregon, Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts, Jon Ossoff from Georgia, Brian Schatz and Mazie Hirono from Hawaii, Chris Van Hollen from Maryland and Tina Sminesota.
Democratic representatives who have signed the letter include: Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Kathy Castor, Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, Frederica S. Wilson, Lois Frankel and Maxwell Alejandro Frost from Florida; Hank Johnson and Nikema Williams from Georgia; Betty McCollum from Minnesota; Rashida Tlaib and Shri Thanedar from Michigan; Valerie P. Foushee from North Carolina; Chuy García, Bradley Scott Schneider, Delia C. Ramirez, Danny K. Davis, Sean Casten, Mike Quigley and Jonathan L. Jackson from Illinois; Pramila Jayapal, Suzan K. Delbene and Adam Smith from Washington; Eleanor Holmes Norton from the District of Columbia; Dina Titus von Nevada; Glenn Ivey and Sarah Elfreth from Maryland; Gwen S. Moore by Wisconsin; Luis Correa, Juan Vargas, Mark Tano, Zoe Lofgren, Mike Thompson, Sydney Kamlager-Dove, John Garamendi and Jim Costa from California; Janelle S. Bynum, Suzanne Bonamici, Maxine Dexter and Andrea Salinas from Oregon; Yvette D. Clarke, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Paul Tonko and Dan Goldman from New York; Sylvia R. Garcia, Jasmine Crockett and Veronica Escobar from Texas; Wesley Bell and Emanuel Cleaver from Missouri; Sommer L. Lee and Mary Gay Scanlon from Pennsylvania; Jahana Hayes from Connecticut; Brittany Pettersen from Colorado; Yassamin Ansari from Arizona; Seth Moulton and James P. McGovern from Massachusetts; Seth Magazine from Rhode Island; and Sarah McBride from Delaware.
