President Trump is visiting a newly established migrant detention center at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in Florida. The facility is designed to process migrants and facilitate their deportation via direct flights from the airstrip, which is isolated within wetlands. The center will mainly consist of tents and trailers, accommodating up to 5,000 beds. Florida officials described the high-security nature of the site, which has been referenced as 'Alligator Alcatraz' due to its location and surrounding environment.
Florida officials announced early last week that they'd gotten federal approval to build a detention facility at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, an isolated, 39-square mile airstrip located within the wetlands of the Big Cypress National Preserve, next to Everglades National Park. Its sole, roughly 11,000-foot runway has largely been used for training purposes, but officials say it will soon accommodate deportation flights.
The site's nickname, coined by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, is a nod to the infamous island prison off the San Francisco coast and to its proximity to the predators of the marshy Everglades, from pythons to alligators to mosquitoes.
So you'll be able to bring people in, they'll get processed, they have an order of removal, then they can be queued and the federal government can fly right on the runway, right there, you literally drive them 2,000 feet, put them on a plane and then they're gone.
So the security is amazing, natural and otherwise.
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