Hundreds of environmentalists and activists They protested this Saturday against the future immigration jail ‘Aligator Alcatraz’ (Alcatraz Caimán), which could be opened on Tuesday, according to the governor of Florida, Ron Desantis, To retain up to 3,000 migrants.
The protesters gathered, between the passage of construction trucks, in the Everglades Natural Park for denounce environmental effects In this area of wetlands and swamps west of Miami, where there are 36 native species of threatened or in danger.
“This scam will cost us 450 million dollars and ruin our precious Everglades”; “Continue with the ‘Aligator Alcatraz’ is a criminal“,” These are concentration camps in indigenous lands, “said some of their posters.
Las Protests rerecaged after a tour of the area that broadcast the ‘Fox and Friends’ program The previous night with Desantis, who suggested that the detention center, built in an abandoned airport, could start receiving immigrants from Tuesday.
The activists They denounced the “inhuman” conditions that this would imply for migrantswho would be exposed to the “extreme” heat of summer in Florida, to hurricanes and animals such as whore and snakes.
“We have to advocate all of us,” said one of the protest leaders, Betty Osceola, indigenous of the Mikasuki people, who lives the place. “Look in your heart to pray for all these detained people so that they can be human again.”
The speed of the construction of the ‘Aligator Alcatraz’ impacts environmentalistsAs soon as June 18, the Attorney General of Florida, James Uthmeier, offered the customs immigration and control service (ICE) retain there from next month to 1,000 migrants, initial figure.
Therefore, Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit to stop the center by arguing that the decision “was taken without performing any environmental evaluation, as required by the National Environmental Policy Law.”
The place, whose name refers to the Caimanes de Florida and the historic prison of Alcatraz that the president, Donald Trump, has ordered to reopen in the San Francisco Bay, is built in an area of just over 100 square kilometers.
The governor has argued that the State lives an “emergency” to build ‘Aligator Alcatraz‘And another immigration detention center announced on Wednesday in a National Guard camp to Jacksonville’s Suorete, which will house up to 5,000 migrants in total.
