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(NewsNation) — Florida's lawyer wide is proposing an migrant detention center that helium has dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz."
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, a Republican, told Fox Business that Florida is proposing a caller detention halfway connected a parcel of onshore owned by Miami-Dade County.
The onshore is situated successful the mediate of the Everglades, surrounded by alligators and pythons, leaving detainees with "nowhere to run, obscurity to hide."
The erstwhile airdrome installation besides has an airstrip that could facilitate deportation flights arsenic good arsenic lodging radical suspected of being successful the U.S. illegally and processing migration cases.
Uthmeier said the installation could beryllium constructed successful 30 to 60 days and could beryllium utilized to location astir 1,000 people. It would beryllium the state's largest detention facility.
The installation would easiness unit connected section jails and national facilities that person been utilized to clasp immigrants detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement arsenic portion of President Donald Trump's mass deportation efforts.
While ICE has arrested astir 650 radical regular during the archetypal months of Trump's term, the president has accrued unit connected the agency, mounting a people of 3,000 arrests daily.
ICE raids person sparked protests crossed the country arsenic the medication has specifically targeted Democratic-run cities with sanctuary policies.
