Florida would be negotiating the closure of the Alligator Alcatraz immigrant detention center
The Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention center could stop operating as the federal government continues to fail to resource it
According to a report from The New York Times, the Florida government is in negotiations with the Trump administration to close the migrant detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz.
In June last year, Kristi Noem, then Secretary of National Security, made known in an interview granted to the television network CBS that the facilities where temporarily foreigners lacking legal status detain would remain two by agents of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) until being sent to their countries of origin, would be financed das taking part of the resources of the shelter program and services of the Federal Agency for Emergency Management (FEMA).
“Under the leadership of President Trump, we are working at all machinery in cost-effective and innovative ways to fulfill the mandate of the American people to massively deport criminal illegal immigrants.
We will expand the facilities and the accommodation space in just a few days, thanks to our collaboration with Florida,” he indicated.
The announcement came a week after James Uthmeier, Attorney General of Florida, posted a video on the X platform, formerly known com or Twitter, where he promoted the setup of an immigrant detention center surrounded by alligators and snakes, this with the objective of preventing them from escaping.
From this the assembly of Alligator Alcatraz in an area that comprises 39 square miles and where the Miami Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport is located.
The controversial point for the Florida government is that it has not received the money promised to keep operating the detention center located in the heart of the Everglades wetland, an ecological reserve in southern Florida.
At the same time, it faces legal and environmental disputes from civil organizations that reproach it for the unhealthy conditions of the detainees.
Thanks to an appeals court ruling Alligator Alcatraz has been remained open, but reported media indicates that the Department of Homeland Security(DHS) considers it too costly and inefficient.
In fact, of the $608 million dollars that he had requested for his operation he hasn't received any kind of reimbursement during e the months it has been operating by housing 1,400 detainees on average, which justifies the proposal to negotiate its closure.