An "asinine idea."
We must stop Gov. DeSantis from building an Alcatraz in our Everglades!
DeSantis fast-tracks building immigrant detention center in Everglades, WLRN Public Media, by Joshua Ceballos
Florida official are moving at breakneck speed to build the "Alligator Alcatraz" immigrant detention center on a partially-built airstrip in the Everglades — inviting harsh rebukes from environmental groups founded to protect this very stretch of fragile wetlands…
… " This site isn't surrounded by the Everglades. This is the Everglades. If you look at this on a Google Earth image, you'll see that there are pristine wetlands surrounding the single runway that stands out there," Eve Samples, executive director of the nonprofit Friends of the Everglades, told WLRN…
… Friends of the Everglades is encouraging Floridians to reach out to DeSantis and Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, who has championed the project, to express their discontent with building a migrant facility there.
According to Samples, 4,000 people have sent letters to DeSantis and Uthmeier via the Friends of the Everglades website…
… Steve Friedman, a councilman for the Village of Islamorada and former Commodore of the Florida Keys Fishing Guides Association, told WLRN he worries how runoff from the construction of the facility will affect the environment and economy around Florida Bay.
"Anything that happens even in the north of the Everglades affects us here in the Florida Bay. Runoff comes down to as close as 1000 yards from shore in Islamorada," Friedman said. "This asinine idea of creating this detention center for immigrants and also housing for the guards and security and staff in this area is beyond the realm of any sort of basic logic or reality"…
