Collier County, Fla. (WFLA) – President Donald Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis visited South Florida on Tuesday to open Crocodile Alcatraz.
“Think about what you have here,” Gov. DeSantis said. “Let’s say they’ve already been deported and you drive them 2,000 feet, onto the runway, and then they’re gone. That’s one stop shop.”
The detention site is protected by crocodiles and other creatures, and the president believes new holdings for deported people are particularly safe.
Trump and DeSantis hope that the prospect of being sent there will encourage them to leave illegally here on their own.
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The new department store’s holdings are located just off the Tamami Trail, also known as the US Expressway 41 in Collier County.
“Welcome to Crocodile Alcatraz,” the governor said. “By the way, I like that name.”
Outside the fence at the Ice Detention Center, protesters chanted, “Take out our Everglades path.”
“We just acknowledge that the agenda for Crocodile Alcatraz and Trump’s deportation is generally a human rights violation and we cannot see it happening and happening.”
Hundreds of people gathered in the media and law enforcement from protesters and supporters. Some call it an inhumane prison camp, but DeSantis says it could be a model for other states.
The President took a tour of the centre at Dade Carrier Training and Transition Airport.
“They have a lot of bodyguards and a lot of cops in the shape of crocodiles,” Trump said. “You don’t have to pay them that much, but I don’t want to run the Everglades for a long time.”
Trump was watching him tour through the dorm building, which had a row of bunk beds surrounded by chain link fencing. It can accommodate up to 3,000 people.
“It’s not just a crocodile or a pison,” says Lupita, a volunteer at Unidos Immokalee. “It’s not intended to be fear. It’s the magical place, the Everglades, but on such a type of condition, it forced detention where the goal is fear and suffering. This is dangerous and unacceptable.”
The center was built to promote the deportation of undocumented migrants, and the governor said the first detainees are expected to arrive Wednesday.
“Don’t make Florida the only state,” DeSantis said. “There are very red states that need to do this as much as Florida does. It increases their numbers, and there are a lot of people who will deport themselves, because they don’t want to end up with Alcatraz of the Crocodile or some other places.
“We voted for a massive deportation and retaliation from the DOJ. That’s what we got.” “The actions have consequences for them, and that’s what it’s for us. This is a testament to how good the governor and Ron DeSantis we have, and how much president we have in Donald J. Trump.”
