The abandoned Florida Airport is converted into “Alcatraz” crocodile

A caravan of trucks carrying tents, building materials, and mobile toilets flows to almost an abandoned airport in the picturesque Evergels in Florida, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

But they do not help build a great tourist attraction in the area.

Instead, they lay the foundations for a new immigrant detention facility called “Alcatraz”.

The facility was proposed, in the midst of a quagmire in Miami, by legislators in the state to support the agenda of US President Donald Trump.

“You do not need to invest much in the ocean. If people go out, he does not wait for them much unlike crocodiles and triumphs.”

The new detention center is built on the Training and Transition Airport site from the Dade-Collier, about 43 miles (70 km) from central Miami, in the center of Everglades, which are dirty, semi-tropical lands.

The airport, which will be the detention center, is a experimental training runway surrounded by the vast swamps.

At the suffocating summer heat with mosquitoes, we were able to advance a few meters away in the complex when, as expected, a guard in a truck that prevented our way.

We hear the sounds coming from a small channel next to the complex. We wonder whether fish, snakes, or hundreds of crocodiles wandering in wetlands are.

Although the aircraft landing belongs to the Miami Dead County, the decision to convert it into a detention center was taken after an executive order for 2023 by Republican Governor Ron Desantis, as it necessitated emergency powers to stop the flow of immigrants that are not documented.

The new center, which will have the ability to accommodate about 1,000 detainees and will start operations in July or August, quickly became a controversial symbol of the Trump administration’s immigration policy.

Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, Desantis hinted that the Alcatraz crocodile is being built in the middle of a swamp might not be the last.

“We are likely to do something similar to Camp Blander”, referring to the former US military training facility, 300 miles north.

He said the state official was “working on it” and he would have an official announcement “very quickly.”

As Trump He orders immigration authorities to implement “The largest group deportation program in history,” human rights organizations say that detention centers have become overwhelming.

According to the data obtained by CBS News, the enforcement of immigration and customs (ICE) limits 59,000 detention centers at the country level, and 140 % higher than its ability.

Betty Osceola, a member of the original American Miccosukee community, lives near the site and recently participated in a protest against the facility.

Instead of being a temporary position as the authorities mentioned, it will work for several months or even years.

“I have serious concerns about environmental damage,” Mrs. Osulala tells us while we were talking next to a channel where the crocodile was swimming.

She is also concerned about the living conditions that detainees may face in the new facility.

These concerns are frequented by environmental organizations, such as Everglades and human rights organizations in the United States

“It is not only harsh and ridiculous. It confirms how our immigration system is increasingly used to punish people rather than processing it,” the US Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in Florida told the BBC.

Even ice detention centers in populated areas, the American Civil Liberties Union said, “It has a well -reliable history of medical negligence, denial of legal access, and systematic abuse.”

BBC Mondo contacted the Florida Prosecutor’s Office, but he did not receive a response.

In a social media video, Uthmeier says the project is “an effective opportunity” and “low -cost to build a temporary detention facility.”

With the “Co -Crocodile”, he says, there will be “no place to go, there is no place to hide.”

One of the main challenges of the Trump administration was to accelerate the deportation.

In a statement sent to the BBC, the Internal Security Security Security said in a statement sent to the BBC that Florida will receive federal money to establish a new detention center.

She added: “We are working in a speed of turbo on costly and innovative ways to provide the American people’s authorization to collectively deport to illegal foreigners.”

“We will expand the facilities and bed space in only days, thanks to our partnership with Florida.”

Nayyim says the facility will be funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which is responsible for the coordination of disasters.

Daniela Levin Cava, Democratic Mayor of Miami Dead Province, who owns aircraft landing lands, says she has requested information from the state authorities.

Its office said in a statement to the British Broadcasting Authority that the mayor “clearly put several concerns” regarding the proposed use of the airport, that is, about financing and environmental impacts.

While immigration raids have increased in cities like Los Angeles, it appears that the operations of the detained migrants are less prevalent so far in the Miami Dead and South Florida province.

Many Latinians are preferred to stay at home because they are afraid to arrest them and send them to detention centers, according to the certificates collected by the BBC Mundo.