Tuesday, July 01, 2025

TRUMP TO VISIT ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ TODAY

By Bob Walsh

 


 
President Trump is on schedule to visit the new Immigration Detention Center, commonly known now as Alligator Alcatraz, at the old but still functional Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in the middle of the Florida Everglades.  It is possible the facility will also get its first intake when Trump is there, which should be July 1.  Assuming the environmental whackos don't manage to get an injunction against it.  They are asserting that the feds are ignoring environmental regulations.  
 
The facility is already there, kinda-sorta.  I have seen numbers saying anything from 1,000 prisoners to 3,000 prisoner may be housed there, plus staff and support equipment.  There is a very nice 10,000 foot runway and only one road in and out.  The feds assert that the water snakes, anacondas and alligators will likely discourage any but the most motivated from even attempting to evade the government's hospitality.   

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Before cell phones and DNA evidence I worked patrol in the lower Colorado River Basin (swamp) near the town of Matagorda. I was just learning the lay of the land when a burglary suspect I was transporting 30 miles to Bay City had to pee. I stopped on the side of the road and put the cuffs in front of him so he could do his business. He ran off into the swamp. I radioed the Captain who said "Let him go and do not chase him." We never saw or heard about him again.