After the fight over the Miami Jetport ended, all that was left in the Everglades was this isolated Miami-Dade airstrip near Ochopee, which is what attracted Attorney General James Uthmeier to choose it as the site for what he called “Alligator Alcatraz.” (Screengrab via Uthmeier’s X account)
Last week, 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.” (Presumably “Gator Guantánamo” was already taken.)
“You don’t need to invest that much in the perimeter. People get out, there’s not that much waiting for them other than alligators and pythons,” Uthmeier said in a video he posted on X. “Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.”…