“Alligator Alcatraz” will be used to detain criminal illegal immigrants in order to both protect state residents and deport migrants efficiently, Florida GOP Chair Evan Power told Newsmax on Tuesday.
Appearing on “National Report” on the day that the facility, several dozen miles west of Miami, will start operating and be visited by President Donald Trump, Power said that “we are using it to house criminal illegals, the worst of the worst, so that we can both protect Floridians and move illegals out of this country in a timely manner, which is what the voters of America asked for and what the voters of Florida asked for.”
He emphasized that the migrant detention center is in a remote area in the Florida Everglades, where there is “one way in by road, the one way out is by plane to another country.”
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