A LinkedIn Gardaworld publication broadcast for a week reveals that the company is recruiting security agents for a detention establishment in Ochopee, Florida, the same city of the new temporary detention center for migrants nicknamed “the Alcatraz des Alligators”.
The offer, although it does not specify that it is a position in this establishment, indicates that employees will have to work up to 60 hours per week, live on site for the duration of the contract and compose with extreme conditions in a hot, humid and isolated environment. The position is paid at US $ 22 per hour.
According to information reported by the Miami Herald On Thursday, the Quebec company would have obtained a contract of nearly 8 million US dollars to provide security personnel in the controversial detention center in the south of Florida.
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This entrenched camp is located on the remains of an old airport, in the heart of the Everglades, a region of swamps infested with alligators. Surrounded by 8,500 meters of barbed wire, this place has a capacity of 3000 migrants.
President Donald Trump, visiting this week, had praised the initiative by saying that “there were many police officers in the form of alligators. A declaration that aroused the reactions of the defenders of human rights and the local indigenous communities.
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With Vincent Larouche, The press
