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SARose

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3. $450 mil/yr to run this?
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 10:42 AM
Jun 25

Florida sprints ahead with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration detention center project

By GARY FINEOUT and BRUCE RITCHIE
06/24/2025 07:33 PM EDT
Updated: 06/24/2025 07:54 PM EDT

By Monday, the Department of Homeland Security said it had signed off on a plan to house up to 5,000 people in Florida who are either arrested by state law enforcement or brought to detention centers by federal immigration authorities. DHS said in a statement that it planned to tap into a Federal Emergency Management Agency shelter program to reimburse the state the estimated $450 million a year it will cost to run the remote detention centers.


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including bringing in old FEMA trailers for workers and using tents for those brought to the center.


Same article.

This hellhole is East of Miami on an abandoned airstrip in the Florida Everglades. What happens when a hurricane comes through there? Ya just gonna let ‘em die? Five thousand human beings?

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