Migration policy
Trump visits the “Alcatraz des Alligators” in Florida
The American president went to a detention center for migrants, built in one week in the middle of the swamps. An “inhuman” project, according to its detractors.
The American president, Donald Trump, visited on Tuesday “the Alcatraz of the Alligators”, a retention center for migrants built at lightning speed in the midst of the swamps of Florida.
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Donald Trumpvisiting Tuesday at “theAlcatraz of alligators“, A detention center built in the midst of the swamps of Florida, made fun of illegal immigrants who would risk, in the event of escape, to be attacked by wildlife.
“We have a lot of cops in the form of alligators – you don’t need to pay them as much,” said the American president, visiting the installations in Ochopee, on the edge of the Everglades National Park.
Is the idea that any fugitives are attacked by alligators or snakes? “I suppose it is the concept,” replied the Republican president in the morning, leaving towards Florida.
“The snakes are fast, but the alligators … We will teach them how to escape an alligator, ok?” He had fun. If they escape from prison, how to run away: do not run in a straight line, run like that. And what do you know? Your chances are increasing by 1%. “
3000 beds in the middle of swamps
This “Alcatraz of the Alligators” is unworthy of the detractors of the brutal migration policy of Donald Trump, who qualify the “inhuman” project. The retention center has been built at lightning speed on an old Everglades, a protected natural marshy area in the south-east of the country.
Some 3,000 places are planned there, according to the Minister of Internal Security, Kristi Noem, who accompanied Donald Trump on Tuesday. Florida authorities had mentioned a thousand places. Its operating cost is estimated at $ 450 million a year.
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Both the White House and the Local Authorities nicknamed it “Alcatraz des Alligators”, in reference to the old prison island From San Francisco that Donald Trump also intends to reopen – this project nevertheless seems to be at a standstill after officials have noted that his cost would be exorbitant.
Protesters opposed to the repressive migration policy of Donald Trump have gathered in front of the Florida center in recent days.
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