Is the idea that any fugitives are attacked by alligators or snakes? “I suppose it is the concept,” replied the Republican.
“The snakes are fast, but the alligators … We will teach them how to escape an alligator, ok? If they escape from prison, how to run away: do not run in a straight line, run like that,” he had fun drawing a zigzag with his hand. “And you know what? Your chances are increasing by 1%.”
Later, Donald Trump even advanced the idea of ​​expeling criminals who were allegedly naturalized. “It’s controversial but I don’t care,” he swept.
Grilled cages
This retention center, made of aligned bunk beds, locked in wireless cages, under white canvas pavilions, was 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.
Both the White House and the Local Authorities nicknamed it “Alcatraz des Alligators”, in reference to the former Prison Island of San Francisco and Donald Trump also plays to reopen.
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If this other shocking project seems to be at a standstill after officials have notably estimated its exorbitant cost, “the design work began six months ago, and several prison development companies are studying how to do it with us. It is still a bit early, but very promising,” said the former New York business man on his social social platform.
“Do not use nature as a weapon”, “do not touch my marshes”: demonstrators opposed to Donald Trump have gathered in front of the Florida center in recent days.
“Alligators et pythons”
“Why would you like to go through the+ Alcatraz of alligators+ if you can decide yourself to leave?” Asked Florida Ron Desantis, who welcomed Donald Trump when he arrived. “Many people will make this decision,” he said.
Some 200,000 alligators, which can exceed 4 meters at their adult size, populate the Everglades National Park and make it renown.
Alligators’ attacks on humans remain relatively rare in Florida. Between 1948 and 2022, 453 “unlikely accidental bites” were listed, including 26 deadly, according to the Florida fauna conservation commission.
But the American authorities have worked to amplify the risk.
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“If people are going out, there is not much who awaits them, apart from alligators and pythons,” said Florida Prosecutor James Uthmeier.
Before this “Alcatraz of the Alligators”, Donald Trump, who erected the fight against immigration in absolute priority of his second term, had already expelled migrants in an irregular situation towards a giant prison in Salvador and others in Guantanamo, an American military base in Cuba.
His visit to Florida occurs when the republican president pushes to adopt his megaproject of budgetary law, which includes the financing of a vast program of expulsion of illegal immigrants.
The environmental defenders denounce the construction of the center in a natural ecosystem which houses more than 2,000 species of animals and plants.
