“Alcatraz”, a 5,000 -bed detention center in the Florida swamp, is days of opening

Florida officials are building what they called “Alcatraz” to help President Donald Trump’s implementation Collective deportation agendaWork to build a complex of hard tents, trailers and temporary buildings similar to the sites used during natural disasters.

Building the attachment in wetlands remotely and environmentally environmentally, about 45 miles (72 km) west of the city of Miami, in addition to human rights advocates who criticized the plan as an and inhuman eligibility.

State officials say that installation is crucial to support the immigration campaign from the federal government, which led to a record number of frustrations, as a total of more than 56,000 migrants in June, which is more than 2019.

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5,000 detention beds by early July

The site’s construction on summer dogs is part of the state plan to operate 5,000 immigration detention beds by early July, according to Florida Attorney General James OthiarFormer Chief of Staff of the Republican Governor Ron Desantis and The main architect From the state The enforcement of aggressive migration campaign. Help Uthmeier coordinate Funds funded by the state From about 50 Venezueli to Martha Fenard, Massachusetts, In 2022.

In the eyes of Florida officials, the harsh conditions surrounding the distant aircraft guns Evergels and their runway with a length of approximately 10,500 feet (3,200 meters) makes it an ideal location for sheltering and transporting immigrants.

“We do not need to build a lot of bricks and mortar shells,” Othiar said in an interview with conservative media commentator Benny Johnson. “Fortunately, the mother nature does a lot on the ocean.”

Uthmeier added: “There is no place to really go. If you are there, and if you are being held there, there is no way, and there is no way out.”

The Trump administration wants more than twice the current 41,000 beds to detain migrants to at least 100,000 beds.

The draft tax cutting and budget reconciliation includes last month by the US House of Representatives 45 billion dollars over four years for migrant detentionThree times the spending. The Senate is now considering this legislation.

Democrats and activists dismantle the plan

More than 50 years ago, environmental defenders, including the famous Stoneman Douglas, gathered, to stop the same extension of the Earth to what it would have The largest airport in the world.

Now, activists gather to stop what some critics have described as a “stealing” of the country.

“It is surrounded by the National Park and the National Reserve of Big Sri. This land is part of one of the most fragile ecosystems in the country,” and reads a statement from the invitation group from Evergels. “Let’s not repeat the mistakes of the past. This land deserves permanent protection.”

The American Democratic Democrat, Maxwell Frost, condemned the detention center, describing its clear use of crocodiles as a “harsh scene” security scale.

“Donald Trump has made clear, manage it, and the empowerment factors have one thing brutally: they intend to use the government’s authority to kidnap, starve, hunger, and harm each single immigrant they can – because they have deep contempt for migrants and use them in serious issues facing workers working in a statement.

Maria Assason Bilbao, the Florida campaign coordinator on the American Friends Service Committee, a group of immigration advocacy, warned that the health and safety of detainees are at risk.

“What is happening is anxiety, the level of abstraction from humanity,” said Bilbao. “It is like a play for cruelty.”

Bilbao, who leads a group of immigration defenders who help immigrants in an ice office in southern Florida, said she is concerned about the health risks of heat and mosquitoes, and the challenges he faces remotely to the site for community members in the hope of protesting the activities there.

DHS supports the initiative

Officials of the US Department of Internal Security praised this effort and “the agency’s partnership with Florida.”

The Minister of National Security, Christie Naim, said that the new facility will be largely funded by the shelter and services program within the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or Fema, which is famous for responding to hurricanes and other natural disasters.

“We are working at a speed of turbo on costly and innovative ways to provide the American people’s mandate for collective deportation to criminal foreigners.” “We will expand the facilities and bed space in a few days.”

An American official said the facility “through a team of sellers” will cost $ 245 for the bed a day or about 450 million dollars annually. Florida will incur these expenses and pay by FEMA, which has a refuge box and a service program worth $ 625 million.

Immigrants who were arrested by law enforcement officers in Florida under federation 287 (g) the program It will be held in the facility, as well as immigrants in the reservation of immigration and American customs benefit, or ICE.

Under the revival 287 (G) program, local and state law enforcement employees can interrogate immigrants in their custody and detain them. Possible deportation.

The 67 provinces of Florida have signed more than 280 likes, and more than a third of the 720 agreement in the country.

Florida uses emergency powers to build the site

State officials are leading the land using emergency powers, according to an executive order issued by Desantis during the then -then -President Joe Biden to respond to what the ruler considered a crisis caused by illegal immigration.

Florida is moving forward with construction on the province’s lands due to the fears of the mayor of Miami Daniela Levin Cava, local activists and indigenous American tribal leaders who consider the region holy.

By relying on executive orders, the state is able to avoid laws to buy the project, which Nikki Farid, head of the Democratic Party in Florida, said that he is up to the abuse of power.

Orders give a sweeping authority to the head of the state’s emergency department, Kevin Gutry, including the ability to suspend “any law, rule, or order” is seen as slowing the response in the event of emergency, and the ability to put the law enforcement staff chosen from all parts of the state according to his “direct and coordination.”

“The ruler Desantis has insisted that, under his leadership, the federal government will facilitate the enforcement of the immigration law,” Desantis spokesman said in a statement.

“Florida will continue to lead the immigration application.”

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The Associated Presse Gisella Salomon from Miami. Kate Payne is a member of the American Press/Report for America State News. Report on America It is a non -profit national service program that places journalists in local news rooms to report secret issues