The virtually abandoned Florida airport being turned into 'Alligator Alcatraz' A convoy of trucks carrying tents, construction materials and portable toilets flows into a virtually abandoned airport in Florida's picturesque Everglades, a Unesco World Heritage Site. But they're not helping build the region's next big tourist attraction. Instead they're laying the foundations for a new migrant detention facility, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz". The facility, in the middle of a Miami swamp, was proposed by state lawmakers to support US President Donald Trump's deportation agenda. "You don't need to invest that much in the perimeter. If people get out, there's not much waiting for them other than alligators and pythons," explains the state's attorney general, James Uthmeier, a Republican, in a video set to rock music and posted on social media. The new detention centre is being built on the site of the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, about 43 miles (70km) from central Miami, in the middle of the Everglades, an ecologically important subtropical wetland.
FEMA was simply responsible for distributing the funds since they have a long history of working with hotels on temporary housing. These were not FEMA funds but came from DHS and other federal government entities.
I can’t wait until Trump eliminates FEMA. if he doesn’t that will be a campaign promise he will have broken. States should solve their own problems. DOGE should have done this months ago.