Despite criticism from various voices for human rights violations at the “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant prison, the US Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, assured that Republican governors would be evaluating the possibility of creating replicas of the detention center.

That is, the United States Government seeks to build five more mega detention centers for migrants like the one that recently opened in Florida.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed that the Donald Trump administration is in talks with five Republican-governed states to “replicate” the Florida model.

These statements come days after Stephen Miller, Trump's advisor and architect of his immigration policy, told Fox News that his government wants “all Republican states” to work with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to build new mega detention centers.

“Pick up the phone, call DHS, work with us to build facilities in your state so we can get the illegal immigrants and the criminals out,” the official said.

The Florida center, located in a wetland reserve full of reptiles, has been denounced by the Democratic opposition and by migrants detained there due to its “inhumane” conditions.

Organizations and activists have denounced that migrants are “practically crammed into cages” and held in unsanitary conditions.

Florida opened the site to Democratic lawmakers, though not the press, after the first immigrants detained at “Alligator Alcatraz” told local media about the “inhumane” conditions in the makeshift tents, with “suffocating” heat and humidity, water shortages, and rotten food.

The Archdiocese of Miami has also joined the criticism, calling the new detention center “corrosive” and “inappropriate.”