Trump’s Everglades Prison Can’t Even Withstand a Routine Rainstorm. Ron DeSantis Wants to Open It Anyway.

"Gov. Ron DeSantis has plowed ahead with developing the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport ... in hopes of detaining up to 5,000 people there."

Nazi comparisons surge in response to aggressive immigrant detention and enforcement policies, as do rebukes that such language trivializes the Holocaust.

Florida’s recently appointed attorney general, James Uthmeier, announced that he had a pretty snazzy idea: Build the state’s biggest immigrant detention center in the middle of the Everglades and call it “Alligator Alcatraz.

A group of Democratic state lawmakers from Florida were turned away from “Alligator Alcatraz” by authorities Thursday, after seeking to exercise “oversight” over the facility. Democratic State Senators Shevrin Jones and Carlos Guillermo Smith of Florida and Democratic State Representatives Anna Eskamani,

Jim Beever spent much of his career reviewing large developments in the Collier County area, which is where the detention center is being built.

As the Senate was passing President Donald Trump's big tax bill, which "gives a lift to the rich at the expense of the safety net," he was touring Florida's Alligator Alcatraz, "a prison to terrify migrants,