TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A top Florida official says the controversial state-run immigration detention facility in the Everglades will likely be empty in a matter of days, even as Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration and the federal government fight a judge’s order to shutter the facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” by late October. That’s according to an email exchange shared with The Associated Press.
In a message sent to South Florida Rabbi Mario Rojzman on Aug. 22 related to providing chaplaincy services at the facility, Florida Division of Emergency Management Executive Director Kevin Guthrie said “we are probably going to be down to 0 individuals within a few days.” Rojzman, and the executive assistant who sent the original email to Guthrie, both confirmed the veracity of the messages to the AP.
A spokesperson for Guthrie, whose agency has overseen the construction and operation of the site, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
News that the last detainee at “Alligator Alcatraz” could leave the facility within days came less than a week after a federal judge in Miami ordered the detention center to wind down operations, with the last detainee needing to be out within 60 days. The state of Florida appealed the decision, and the federal government asked U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams to put her order on hold pending the appeal, saying that the Everglades facility’s thousands of beds were badly needed since detention facilities in Florida were overcrowded.
the facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz”
I’m not familiar…do they mean Alligator Auschwitz?
Well that was a huge waste of tax dollars
And human dignity
And human suffering
And…
Not a waste, there’s tax dollars were funnelled to a local millionaire or billionaire through a “legitimate” purchase of goods and services. You don’t really think it would be that expensive to put up marquees in a swamp?
Well given how many castles sunk into swamps? I’m gonna presume swamps are a bitch to work with in general, but this is also a Trump project meaning 2 bucks worth of chainlink was marked up 500 percent.
They plan to extraordinarily rendition them.
Hell yeah. This is correct.
Lol so now it’s alligator Alcatraz because it’s shut down, like Alcatraz, and surrounded by gators.
Literally every inmate should sue the state and not settle for a class action.
Individually.
Sad part is that only hurts the people. Gov. High heels and Pres. Kid fucker are free and protected.
Both Florida and the US government’s sovereign immunity clauses are designed specifically to prevent this. The judiciary is heavily shielded, even from intentional misconduct. It’s why you almost never hear about successful lawsuits against penitentiaries.
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I suppose an argument could be made in that vein given their total monopoly on armored vehicles, yeah.
Not immune, but they have a high lead resistance and armor class.
They could always settle out of court.
Why would they ever do that, though?
Kinda hard if they get deported
What a waste of resources.
Somebody made bank because of this bullshit.
GEO Group - George Zoley and his son Chris
Ya, including some Canadians for feck’s sake.
Search for… Canadian Company Staffing Alligator Alcatraz… You’ll find Gardaworld
Grifters gonna grift. The whole admin is a conglomerate of grifters.
Using hate to make bank, the American way.
I don’t know what the average detainment period has been but they somehow managed to deport immigrants to El Salvador in a few days, but no doubt they’ve been holding others for weeks without a hearing or any kind of scheduled date for deportation.
Gitmo, Rwanda, Uganda, Somalia, we don’t really know where else.
Gardaworld shareholders who no doubt made a contribution to Trump
The administration’s claims that it’s 250-450 million USD fronted by Florida, and then backfilled by FEMA Shelter and Services Program funds.
It would be interesting to see how many thousands they paid per night to imprison each person here.
FEMA prison camps sound familiar from W voters
One of the other versions of this same thing, I think the one in Texas, they are paying $300k per tent in building the facility. This entire thing reeks of manufacturing an opportunity to hand inflated government contracts to selected individuals
modern humans in a nutshell
Republican opportunism is thrifty. I’ll give them that.
Where are they sending the detainees?
Probably fed them to the alligators if I had to guess.
Probably fucking Uganda
Out back.
:(
Could have built a lot of free/affordable housing with all the money they dumped on this racist PR stunt, actually going to work on that unhoused crisis. but nah. Brilliant leadership from the fash regime once again.
I’m glad it’s being shut down, especially since my first thought was that they were requesting chaplain services because they were going to kill all the prisoners.
I wouldn’t get your hopes up. They’re likely still going to be killed. It will just be somewhere else.
Shut it down!!!
Huh, I wonder what a good number of those people will dedicate the rest of their waking lives to…
It’s because they will all be deported illegally to Uganda by then. Probably.
