Protesters gathered in Florida Saturday to denounce the state starting construction this week on a DHS funded project to house illegal aliens at a remote airstrip in the Everglades dubbed, “Alligator Alcatraz,” an aborted airport site built in the 1960s that is usually used for training, formally known as the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced earlier this week the site would largely be funded by FEMA money the Biden administration used to put up illegal aliens in hotels. The site could be ready for the first illegals as early as this Tuesday. Plans are for up to 5,000 to be held there.
Notably, out of respect for Florida’s laws on blocking roads, the protesters did not try to stop the construction vehicles.
Video posted by Thomas Kennedy with the Florida Immigration Coalition:
Nonstop trucks with construction materials going into the immigration detention facility being built right now in the Everglades. Whoever doesn’t think this will have a harmful environmental impact is lying to themselves. pic.twitter.com/TJOkKPIQVS
— Thomas Kennedy (@tomaskenn) June 28, 2025
Drop Site News reporter Ryan Grim posted video of a “huge turnout”:
Huge turnout in the Everglades for a protest against Alligator Alcatraz, the Ron DeSantis tent prison for migrants. It’s ominous how fast they’re building it. Will cost $450 million and be ready very soon. pic.twitter.com/ERqPmSi75R
— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) June 28, 2025
Right Angle News Network observed how well behaved the protesters are:
BREAKING – Democrats in Florida are now protesting the construction trucks bringing in materials to build Alligator Alcatraz, but for some reason, they are staying off of the road. pic.twitter.com/o5LYtV28US
— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) June 28, 2025
DHS posted an Alligator Alcatraz meme on Saturday, “Coming soon!”:
Coming soon! pic.twitter.com/v3DCJsrDwV
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) June 28, 2025
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis gave a tour of the Alligator Alcatraz site to Fox and Friends co-host Steve Doocy on Friday:
Florida is stepping up to help increase deportations and fulfill President Trump’s mandate to enforce immigration law.
Alligator Alcatraz is a secure facility in Florida that will stage criminal illegal aliens for efficient mass deportation. I gave @SteveDoocy a tour this… pic.twitter.com/jS6xK1u7Pm— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) June 27, 2025
Excerpt from AP report on a lawsuit filed by environmental groups on Friday to stop Alligator Alcatraz:
Environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit Friday to block a migrant detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” now being built on an airstrip in the heart of the Florida Everglades.
The lawsuit seeks to halt the project until it undergoes a stringent environmental review as required by federal and state law. There is also supposed to be a chance for public comment, according to the lawsuit filed in Miami federal court.
Critics have condemned the facility as a cruel and inhumane threat to the ecologically sensitive wetlands, while Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state officials have defended it as part of the state’s aggressive push to support President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
The center is set to begin processing people who entered the U.S. illegally as soon as next week, DeSantis said Friday on “Fox and Friends.”
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem posted about her appearance Friday night on Jesse Watters Primetime to talk about Alligator Alcatraz, “Alligator Alcatraz, and other facilities like it, will give us the capability to lock up some of the worst scumbags who entered our country under the previous administration. I will continue to stand alongside our officers as they protect and defend our homeland. Make America Safe.”
Alligator Alcatraz, and other facilities like it, will give us the capability to lock up some of the worst scumbags who entered our country under the previous administration.
I will continue to stand alongside our officers as they protect and defend our homeland.
Make America… pic.twitter.com/m5jWyt49v7
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) June 28, 2025
Statement by Noem given to CBS News on Monday about FEMA hotel money for migrants being used to pay for Alligator Alcatraz:
NEWS: In a statement to CBS News, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem says Florida will receive federal funds from FEMA to build new detention facilities to hold immigrants in the US illegally, including a site in the Everglades that Tallahassee officials have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.” pic.twitter.com/B4KncVCFaV
— Camilo Montoya-Galvez (@camiloreports) June 23, 2025
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