A.G. Gancarski
Gov. Ron DeSantis says undocumented immigrants have an alternative to lockdown in the Everglades: They can leave Florida willingly.
And the one-way flight from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is free.
“When you’re brought into Alligator Alcatraz as an illegal alien, the first thing that they do, DHS offers you an ability to take a flight back to your home country at federal expense, so nobody actually has to go to Alligator Alcatraz. The illegals are given the right to simply self-deport, not even at their expense,” DeSantis told Newsmax.
“That is the first thing that happens there. You don’t hear a lot about that. Obviously, the detainees, the illegals that end up inside the processing center, they have rejected that offer to go back to their home country.”
The Governor’s position sidesteps the contention of many of the detained that they should have due process, one expressed this week in a suit led by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) that alleges, among other things, that the people detained at the converted airport on the edge of the Everglades lack access to their lawyers.
The ACLU, ACLU of Florida and Americans for Immigrant Justice are working with inmates at the an immigrant detainment facility and other groups representing them, including Florida Keys Immigration, Sanctuary of the South, U.S. Immigration Law Counsel, Victoria Slatton of Sanabria & Associates, and the Law Offices of Catherine Perez, PLLC.
DeSantis addressed concerns about food during Thursday’s interview, saying complaints “about the shade of a color of a piece of turkey or something” served to inmates were misplaced, and that the food was the “same food as all the employees get.”
According to the lawsuit, “detained people were told that they are only allowed one meal a day (and given only minutes to eat).”
6 comments
ScienceBLVR
July 18, 2025 at 8:55 am
When is someone going to surreptitiously take some pics or video of how conditions really are in Dee’s summer fun camp? Would be worth some bucks to someone, I’m sure.
They probably search or send visitors/guards through security, but every prison movie, someone’s got a phone.
It can be done! Let’s go to the tape!
rbruce
July 18, 2025 at 11:45 am
I lived in worst conditions during military recruit training and aboard ship. Everyone detained can leave anytime they want. What exactly is the problem?
MH/Duuuval
July 18, 2025 at 7:30 pm
Really, why would one resist a free ride home and avoid imprisonment?
That is the $24 question.
Just the facts
July 19, 2025 at 1:40 pm
Under Clinton, deportations surged, reaching 5,368,529 in the first term and peaking at 6,922,376 in the second. The W. Bush administration maintained high numbers with 5,279,314 in the first term and 4,760,410 in the second. President Obama’s first term saw 3,160,140 deportations, decreasing to 2,871,899 in his second term. Under Trump, the count was 2,073,208, while Biden, as of 2022, has seen 2,808,946 deportations.
This gov wants federal attention so bad that he took over a completely Federal function using our FEMA money during hurricane season
MH/Duuuval
July 19, 2025 at 5:46 pm
Sounds about right — what is your source?
Meanwhile, Dee has backed off from his grandiose bragging that Florida can go it alone in any natural disaster. Eat crow, Dee.
Just the facts
July 19, 2025 at 1:40 pm
Under Clinton, deportations surged, reaching 5,368,529 in the first term and peaking at 6,922,376 in the second. The W. Bush administration maintained high numbers with 5,279,314 in the first term and 4,760,410 in the second. President Obama’s first term saw 3,160,140 deportations, decreasing to 2,871,899 in his second term. Under Trump, the count was 2,073,208, while Biden, as of 2022, has seen 2,808,946 deportations.
This gov wants federal attention so bad that he took over a completely Federal function using our FEMA money during hurricane season
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