Experts are concerned about dangerous conditions in AlcatrazThe Immigrant Detention Center that opened Tuesday in the Florida Everglades. Hurricanes, floods and mosquito Donald Trump hash “Joked” about.
Built in eight days, the installation consists of large tents, literas and chain link fences that form cages to keep about 3,000 people. Has It was already flooded once. Despite the rudimentary configuration, it will cost $ 450 million a year to operate, according to the National Secretary of National Security Kristi Call.
The first group of immigrant I have already been taken to the Alcatraz crocodile, according to The emergency management division of Florida. “Florida is proud to help the facilitation mission @realdonaldrump to enforce the immigration law,” published the division in X.
The inhospitable nature of the installation is a point of sale for the Republicans. “If people go out, there is not much to wait for them more than whore and pythons,” said Florida James Uthmeier’s attorney general A Video Alcatraz promotion crocodile. “It’s where to go, nowhere to hide.”
Immigrants “are in an installation that is very inaccessible to lawyers, for family members, to supervise,” Renata Bozzetto, deputy director of the Florida immigrants coalition, said The Washington Post Saturday in an article published. “Therefore, the location is so remote and isolated is a problem. Being in an environmentally fragile ecosystem is a problem. Being built with temporary materials will be catastrophic in case of a hurricane.”
The installation is in a high -speed hurricane zone, where the construction code requires that the buildings have a wind -resistant design. Florida’s emergency management director Kevin Guthrie said The Washington Post That the structures are classified for winds traveling 110 miles per hour. As a reference, the maximum speeds of Hurricane Milton last year Reached 180 miles per hour.
In a state where rear patio pools are surrounded on all sides by screens, mosquitoes are so bad that television reporters even have trouble doing their job.
“It is likely that I wonder why I wear a hoodie and a rain jacket, and that is because you can barely walk outside here due to mosquitoes.” saying Hatzel NBC6 candle. “Naturally, when you rain a lot and puddles of water, that, of course, expands many mosquitoes.”
Mosquitoes can cause serious health risks.
“The risk of disease transmitted by mosquitoes on this site is significant,” said Professor Epidemiology at the School of Public Health of Yale University. The Washington Post. Mosquitoes in Everglades can cause neurological damage such as encephalitis, which can be deadly.
“At the time you open your car, your car is infested with mosquitoes,” Florida’s representative, Anna Eskamani, He told Fox 13. She said Shey Wue was a mosquito network and was still boxes of times.
Eskamani was one of the five Democrats who were Input denied To the installation on Thursday.
“Florida’s law gives legislators the authority to make visits not announced to state facilities to inspect the conditions and verify the well -being of people inside. I have served in the legislature for 13 years, and this has never happened”, state senator Shevrin Jones Posted in x.
“This is a shameless abuse of power and an attempt to hide the human rights violations of the public eye,” The legislators said In a joint statement.
Republicans have happily supported the construction of the installation, with the Republican Party of Florida Sale of merchandise The camp promotion.
Some donors are charging the camp, Rolling stone Informed earlier this week. For example, the president of CDR Companies, which Bloomberg reported “will administer medical services and made some site preparation,” donations have made President Donald Trump and the governor of Florida, Ron Desantis.
The installation is surrounded by three sides by the houses of the Miccosukeas and Seminole people, including their ceremonial sites.
“It is a place where we come for healing, where we come to pray,” Betty Osceola, a member of the Everglades Advisory Board and the Miccosukee tribe He told NBC News.
