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   OCHOPEE, Fla. (AP) — The first group of immigrants were scheduled to   
   arrive Wednesday night at a new detention center deep in the Florida   
   Everglades that officials have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” the state’s   
   attorney general said.   
      
   “Alligator Alcatraz will be checking in hundreds of criminal illegal   
   aliens tonight,” Florida Republican Attorney General James Uthmeier said   
   on the X social media platform. “Next stop: back to where they came from.”   
      
   It wasn’t immediately clear precisely when the detainees would arrive or   
   where they were coming from. They were being brought to the facility on   
   buses, officials said.   
      
   The facility, at an airport used for training, will have a capacity of   
   about 3,000 detainees when fully operational, according to Republican Gov.   
   Ron DeSantis said. The center was built in eight days over 10 miles (16   
   kilometers) of Everglades. It features more than 200 security cameras,   
   28,000-plus feet (8,500 meters) of barbed wire and 400 security personnel.   
      
   Environmental groups and Native American tribes have protested against the   
   center, contending it is a threat to the fragile Everglades system, would   
   be cruel to detainees because of heat and mosquitoes, and is on land the   
   tribes consider sacred.   
      
   It’s also located at a place prone to frequent heavy rains, which caused   
   some flooding in the tents Tuesday during a visit by President Donald   
   Trump to mark its opening. State officials say the complex can withstand a   
   Category 2 hurricane, which packs winds of between 96 and 110 mph (154-177   
   kph), and that contractors worked overnight to shore up areas where   
   flooding occurred.   
      
   DeSantis and other state officials say locating the facility in the rugged   
   and remote Florida Everglades is meant as a deterrent, and naming it after   
   the notorious federal prison of Alcatraz, an island fortress known for its   
   brutal conditions, is meant to send a message. It’s another sign of how   
   the Trump administration and its allies are relying on scare tactics to   
   try to persuade people in the country illegally to leave voluntarily.   
      
   State and federal officials have touted the plans on social media and   
   conservative airwaves, sharing a meme of a compound ringed with barbed   
   wire and “guarded” by alligators wearing hats labeled “ICE” for   
   Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Republican Party of Florida has   
   taken to fundraising off the detention center, selling branded T-shirts   
   and beer koozies emblazoned with the facility’s name.   
      
   https://ktla.com/news/ap-us-news/ap-floridas-alligator-alcatraz-detention-   
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