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Florida Builds ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center for Migrants in Everglades

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by OklahomaGator, Jun 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM.

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    Your unkindness wouldn't hurt so much if your wit wasn't so razor sharp. :(
     
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    A huge sigh or relief came from the immigrant community this week when it was discovered that Todd Grantham would be placed in charge of training the Gators surrounding the facility.
     
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    Irony.

    Try this...Sprinkle a little sugar on your karma and it wont taste so bitter.
     
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  5. gaterzfan

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    So, maybe another detention center at Camp Blanding.

    DeSantis looks to build another immigration detention camp at Camp Blanding

    .While building is already underway for the Everglades facility, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday that his administration is working on erecting a second, state-run immigration center at Camp Blanding, the Florida National Guard base located about an hour southwest of Jacksonville.

    “These facilities will be force multipliers for immigration enforcement in cooperation with the federal government,” DeSantis’ communications director Bryan Griffin said in a statement to the Times/Herald.

    The possibility of having two immigration detention centers would build on Florida’s aggressive immigration enforcement effort and provide more detention space in a state where DeSantis has pushed local and state police to help federal immigration authorities identify and detain undocumented immigrants.

    So far, it appears the federal government has only approved building one detention center — the one located on a mostly idle airfield deep in the Everglades. Construction is already underway at that location, with plans to start housing detained immigrants as early as July 1. Individuals who are subject to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers or have final deportation orders will be held at the Everglades facility, Griffin said.
     
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    I'm sure the residents of Kingsley Lake will love having a migrant detention center in their backyard.
     
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    Build it in the Villages.

    Gators in one place. Cougars in another.:emoji_no_mouth:
     
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    Meanwhile, has Arky gotten any money at all ??
     
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    Beats living in a sanctuary city.
     
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    Thanks for taking me off ignore.
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    The video version of the photo Gator515151 posted