Gardaworld agents could patrol the “Alcatraz des Alligators”

$ 22 US The hour, 60 hours a week, in the heat of Florida: the Quebec security company GardaWorld seems to be recruiting security agents for the “Alcatraz des Alligators”, the new controversial prison which welcomes migrants arrested in the vague evictions commanded by President Donald Trump.

All staff will have to live on site, and meals and accommodation will be providedcan we read on a job offer published by the company on LinkedIn, displayed in Ochopee, a town about forty kilometers from the new detention center. However, the announcement does not explicitly indicate that it concerns it.

This prison, ” Alligator Alcatraz His real name, was built in just eight days on the Tarmac of an abandoned airport surrounded by swamps populated by alligators and pythons of the Everglades, in Florida.

According to the Miami Heralda local daily newspaper, GardaWorld has received nearly 8 million US dollars to secure this establishment. GardaWorld had not answered questions from Radio-Canada when publishing these lines.

Donald Trump had also praised the savings he would make as security personnel. He had suggested that fauna would take care of detainees who would try to escape it.

The first migrants are already staying in this establishment designed with tents, trailers, modular buildings and more than 8,000 meters of barbed wire. Inside, bunk beds grouped in metal mesh cages act as rooms.

Since the idea was proposed by the governor of Florida, Ron Desantis, at the end of June, she aroused the ire of militants for the rights of immigrants, who deplore the inhumanity of the concept.

Several also fear that extreme weather conditions – frequent in the region -, like hurricanes or strong heat, endangered prisoners.