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

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    According to multiple former guards at the AA facility, the mosquitos are eating everyone alive, the porta potties back up, creating a hellacious miasma, and the water supply for showers is sporadic.

    DeSantis insists everything is fine and definitely meets minimum standards of whatever. He must have missed Trump's new plan to hold detainees without bail for months, possibly years, though.

    “We’re not doing this just to let people have food and shelter, although they do get that. All the minimum standards are upheld,” he said. “But the reality is it’s there to be a quick processing center, we have a runway right there. They can just be flown back to their home country.”

    Sure they can, Ron. And cut off those sweet federal dollars? I think not.
     
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    Florida Official Who Gave Dems a Tour of 'Alligator Alcatraz' Exposes Their Attempts to 'Create Controversy' Out of Thin Air

    "In this situation here, yes, there is a sink there," Guthrie added. "There is a toilet there, but as you indicated earlier, you do both of those things. Whether you use a restroom, or you brush your teeth in a restroom."

    When asked about the food, the state administrator called out Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, who reportedly criticized the turkey -- even though it was wrapped up and not visible -- while also taking a shot at former First Lady Michelle Obama's school lunch program.

    “That might be one of my favorites ... It was a ‘gray turkey sandwich,'" Guthrie said. "Well, she was about six feet away from that turkey sandwich box, that was in a wrapper, [so] I don’t know how she could tell it was gray. However, think about it like this, Jesse. Individuals that go to a hospital, individuals who go and get Michelle Obama’s lunches, are getting the exact same thing."