Florida Outright Refuses to Shut Down “Alligator Alcatraz”
Florida apparently has no intention of closing Alligator Alcatraz.
The Florida Attorney General, James Uthmeier, revealed on Monday that the state planned to maintain the installation of operational ice, despite an order from the court demanding that it has closed in the next two months.
“We will continue to exploit the installation,” Uthmeier in Newslet Wink by phone, referring to the migrant detention center of 3,000 people operated in a swampy and floodable area. “We think it is a fully legitimate installation. It is an effort of the ecologist, by the left, by the Democrats and by honestly this judge, to block our efforts to apply immigration. ”
“They do not like deportations,” said Uthmeier, noting that he had made an opinion to appeal the decision of the court.
Climate activists and the Miccosukee tribe continued the government on the grounds that the immigration agency had violated a federal law by erecting the migrant detention center without carrying out an adequate assessment of its potential impact on Florida’s Everglades.
This turned out to be a winning strategy last week, when the American district judge Kathleen Williams gave the government 60 days to dismantle the concentration camp constructed in a hurry, ordering the elimination of lighting, fencing and site generators. Williams also ordered the installation to stop the current construction and accept any new detainees.
The project, which has been described as having horrible living conditions by detainees and former employees, should cost US taxpayers $ 450 million per year in operating costs. The Florida State government is expected to cope with costs, fileing for reimbursement complaints through the Ministry of Internal Security and FEMA, which the Trump administration has spent months trying to dismantle.
