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It’s an abomination! DeSantis, and Trump are both evil, just like the rest of the repugnant party. Karma kick in sooner, rather than later, please. Ask and Ye shall receive! IYKYK!

Everglades Jet Port, Big Cypress Jetport, or Big Cypress Swamp Jetport, whichever you call it, now the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, was supposed to be the largest airport in the world when it was designed in 1968 (5x the size of JFK Airport) :

At the time, the Boeing 2707 was under development and it was anticipated that supersonic aircraft would dominate long-haul air transportation. South Florida was viewed as an ideal location for an intercontinental SST hub due to the limitation that such aircraft would have to fly over water.^[3] Because of environmental concerns and the cancellation of the 2707 program, construction was halted in 1970 after the completion of just one 10,500′ runway.^[4] The remaining land became the Big Cypress National Reserve.

Big Cypress Nat’l Preserve is 45 miles west of Miami. Big Cypress borders the wet freshwater marl prairies of Everglades National Park to the south, and other state and federally protected cypress country in the west, with water from the Big Cypress flowing south and west into the coastal Ten Thousand Islands region of Everglades National Park.

Calusa Indians, and 15 other Native American tribes lived in Florida before the Spanish arrived in the 1500s, repelling colonizers until the late 1600s. The Seminoles were the last Native Americans to live in the area, in the 19th century. Their descendants are recognized as the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, and the Seminole Tribe of Florida. The first Floridians are recognized as living from 12,000 BC – 1750s AD.

The word “Seminole” could be derived from a Creek word or may be a corruption of the Spanish word “cimarron” which means runaway or wild one.

Back to Alligator Alcatraz. It’s located off the Tamiami Trail, (Hwy. 41) west of Miami, NOT, off Alligator Alley (that’s the 80-mile stretch of I-75 between Fort Lauderdale and Naples, that continues to Tampa):

Now that 11,000 sq.ft. left over runway has become Alligator Alcatraz.

We had a request from the federal government to do it, and so ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ it is,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a news conference last week, adopting the nickname coined by his attorney general for the Everglades facility.

“Clearly from a security perspective, if someone escapes, there’s a lot of alligators you’re going to have to contend (with),” DeSantis said. “No one is going anywhere once you do that. It’s as safe and secure as you can be.”

But while Republicans are touting it as a “low cost” facility fortified by Mother Nature, the project has already sparked a backlash, not only from immigration rights activists and environmentalists but also members of the state’s Indigenous community, who see the project as a threat to their sacred lands.

The governor added he hopes the facility will be a “force multiplier” in the administration’s increasing efforts to detain and deport undocumented migrants. They want to house 3,000-5,000 people in this wicked environment, in “soft-sided structures” too he has stated outloud! TENTS! Its a tent city. Its going to be exceptionally rough for anyone there. The mosquitos would be huge and plentiful, snakes, including pythons, mountain lions, alligators, insects, don’t forget the humidity, and rolling thunderstorms. They say its air conditioned. but I have to wonder about the trailer structures they are showing – how are they housing the 1000 employees? The trailers are probably for them, and offices. It’s a show folks, as always.

Remember too – we’ve just begun Hurricane Season! How and where will they evacuate their prisoners? Or will, they just leave them? I know where my bets are at.

“It’s like a theatricalization of cruelty,” Maria Asuncion Bilbao, Florida campaign coordinator at the immigration advocacy group American Friends Service Committee, previously told The Associated Press.

Kennedy said he’s been angered by Florida’s Attorney General James Uthmeier – who coined the phrase “Alligator Alcatraz” – boasting in a video posted to X “if people get out, there’s not much waiting for them other than alligators and pythons.” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt similarly said at a White House press briefing Monday the alligators were “a deterrent for them to try to escape.”

“When we talk about people as if they’re vermin … The location, the manner in which it’s done, the dehumanizing language … there’s nothing about this detention camp that is not cruel and inhumane,” he said.

I’m thankful that some humans had the decency to stand up with the Seminoles and the Miccosukee and protest when construction began!