Top Florida official says 'Alligator Alcatraz' will likely be empty within days, email shows

[Jose Garcia]

Source: Associated Press

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A top Florida official says the controversial state-run immigration detention facility in the Everglades will likely be empty in a matter of days, even as Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration and the federal government fight a judge’s order to shutter the facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” by late October. That’s according to an email exchange shared with The Associated Press.

In a message sent to South Florida Rabbi Mario Rojzman on Aug. 22 related to providing chaplaincy services at the facility, Florida Division of Emergency Management Executive Director Kevin Guthrie said “we are probably going to be down to 0 individuals within a few days.” Rojzman, and the executive assistant who sent the original email to Guthrie, both confirmed the veracity of the messages to the AP.

A spokesperson for Guthrie, whose agency has overseen the construction and operation of the site, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

News that the last detainee at “Alligator Alcatraz” could leave the facility within days came less than a week after a federal judge in Miami ordered the detention center to wind down operations, with the last detainee needing to be out within 60 days. The state of Florida appealed the decision, and the federal government asked U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams to put her order on hold pending the appeal, saying that the Everglades facility’s thousands of beds were badly needed since detention facilities in Florida were overcrowded.

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[Torchlight]

1. Relief on one hand as they're out of the frying pan

but I wonder what cruel fires Mr. trump will cook up and place them into.

[Fiendish Thingy]

2. More evidence that Trump is not omnipotent, and the states and the people are not powerless. Nt

[Miguelito Loveless]

3. It is a concentration camp

call it what it is.

[BaronChocula]

4. Everything trump touches dies

- Rick Wilson

[otchmoson]

5. My tax dollars at work

Hey Little Boots Ron, how many of my tax dollars have you spent to appease President Pedo?

[DonCoquixote]

6. the mickosukee nations deserves their props

They were the one that killed alligator Alcatraz. Three cheers!

[Bayard]

11. Wonder how trump will retaliate against them....

But--

Hip Hip Hooray!!

[Cheezoholic]

7. It's paved, Don Jr gonna open an Everglades airboat hunting slaughterhouse resort n/t

[progressoid]

8. Where are they putting the people?

[GusBob]

9. Great question

I think they have all been put on planes?

[Jose Garcia]

12. They won't be let go, that's for sure

[OldBaldy1701E]

10. "...Everglades facility's thousands of beds were badly needed since detention facilities in Florida were overcrowded."

Gee, I wonder why that is?

Can we have a press conference with 'Ole GoGo Boots' and ask him?



Stop with the distractions, rethugs.

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!

[Martin68]

13. Looks like the rule of law has not been completely defeated. those who keep harping on the theme that we are already

a "fascist" or "authoritarian" country set to be missing an important part of the picture. Trump is doing his best to create a fascist regime, but DU defeatists who say we are already there are not helping at all.