TALLAHASSE, Florida (AP)-an immigration finding facility in an isolated Everglades airfield, surrounded by mosquito, python and alligator-filled swamplands, is only announced by the operational, federal official on Tuesday.
The Florida officials run with the construction of President Donald Trump’s “Alligator Alcatraz” mass deportation agenda and worked on building a connection from high -performance tents, supporters and short-lived buildings that are similar to the locations used during natural disasters.
The construction of the facility in the remote and ecologically sensitive wetland, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) west of the city center of Miami, are alarming environmentalists and human rights lawyers who beat the plan as cruel and inhuman.
According to state officials, the installation is of crucial importance to support the proceedings of the federal government, which has led to a record number of prison terms, which is more than 56,000 immigrants in June, the largest since 2019.
Here is what to know.
5,000 sticky beds by the beginning of July
The construction of the location in the dog days of the summer is part of the state plan to operationalize 5,000 immigration authorities by early July. According to the Attorney General of Florida, James Uthmeier, a former chief of staff of the Republican governor Ron Desantis, and an essential architect of the state’s aggressive immigration campaign. Uthmeier helped the coordination of the state -financed flights of around 50 Venezuelans in 2022 by Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.
In the eyes of Florida officials, the challenging conditions around the distant Everglades landing railways and the runway of almost 10,500 feet (3.200 meters) are an ideal place for house and transport migrants.
“We don’t have to build a lot of bricks and mortar,” said Uthmeier in an interview with the conservative media commentator Benny Johnson. “And luckily, mother nature does a lot on the scope.”
“There is really no one to go anywhere. If you are accommodated there, if you are detained there, there is no way, no way out,” added Uthmeier.
The Trump administration would like to double its existing 41,000 beds to capture migrants on at least 100,000 beds.
A tax and budgeted reconciliation calculation, which was approved by the US House of Representatives last month, comprises $ 45 billion over four years for the detention of immigrants, a three-time escalate in expenditure. The Senate is now considering this legislation.
Democrats and activists decipher the plan
More than 50 years ago, the advocates of environmental representatives, including the celebrated Marjory Stoneman Douglas, gathered to prevent the same country section from being transformed into the world’s largest airport.
Now activists gather to stop what some critics have referred to as state -supported “attack”.
“Surrounded by the Everglades National Park and Big Cypress National Preserve, this country is part of one of the country’s most fragile ecosystems,” says a explanation of the Advocacy group Friends of the Everglades. “Don’t let us repeat the mistakes of the past. This country deserves permanent protection.”
The Democratic US representative of Florida Maxwell Frost condemned the internment camp and described his obvious apply of alligators as a safety measure as a “cruel spectacle”.
“Donald Trump, his administration and his enabler have made one brutally clear: they intend to kidnap the power of the government, to brutalize, starve and to damage each individual immigrant that they can – because they have a deep contempt for immigrants and use them to have the serious problems,” said Frost in a explanation.
Maria Asuncion Bilbao, coordinator of the Florida campaign at the American Friends Service Committee, an immigration interest representation, warned that the health and security of prisoners are at risk.
“What happens is very worrying, the degree of dehumanization,” said Bilbao. “It’s like a theaterization of cruelty.”
Bilbao, who heads a group of immigration lawyers who facilitate immigrants in one of the ice cream office in Südflorida, said that she was concerned about the health risks of the heat and mosquitoes and the challenges of the location of the location for the members of the community, which hopes to protest or monitor there.
DHS supports the initiative
Officials from the US Ministry of Homeland Protection welcomed the efforts and the “partnership of the agency with Florida”.
DHS secretary Kristi Noem said that the modern facility is largely financed by the protection and service program within the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which is best known to react to hurricanes and other natural disasters.
“We are working on cost-effective and innovative options at the turbo speed to provide the Mandate of the American people for mass shifts from criminal extraterrestrials,” said NoEM in a written explanation that was presented to the AP. “We will expand institutions and a bed dream in just a few days.”
The administration of the “Via a Team of Providers” facilities costs 245 US dollars a day a day or about 450 million US dollars a year, said a US official. The expenses are incurred by Florida and reimbursed by the Fema, which has a 625 million dollar -protection and service program funds.
Immigrants who are arrested by law enforcement officers from Florida as part of the Federal 287 (G) program in the facility as well as immigrants in the care of the US immigration and customs authority or ice cream or ice cream.
As part of the revived program 287 (G), local and state law enforcement officers can ask immigrants into their custody and hold them up for potential deportation.
Agencies in all 67 districts of Florida have signed more than 280 such agreements, more than a third of the 720 agreements that have reached ICE nationwide.
Florida uses emergency powers to build the website
State officials command the country using state emergency powers according to a executive regulation issued by Desantis during the administration of the then president Joe Biden to react to what the governor considered a crisis caused by illegal immigration.
Florida is moving about the concerns of the mayor of Miami-Dade County, Daniella Levine Cava, the construction of the Miami-Dade County district, Daniella Levine Cava, local activists and tribal leaders of the American indigenous people who see the area as sacred.
By based on orders, the state can handle the purchasing laws and quickly pursue the project that this peace is abuse of power.
The commands issue the state management of the state, Kevin Guthrie, a comprehensive authority, including the authority, “laws, rule or order” to tardy down the answer to the emergency and the ability to place selected law enforcement officers from the whole state under its “direct command and coordination”.
“Governor Desantis has insisted that the state of Florida will make the Federal Government easier under his leadership to enforce the Immigration Act,” said a spokesman for Desantis in a statement.
“Florida will continue to implement immigration.”
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Associated Press Writer Gisela Salomon reported from Miami. Kate Payne is a member of the Corps for the “Associated Press/Report” initiative for America Statehouse News. The report for America is a non -profit National Service program that reports journalists in local news editorial offices on hidden topics.
