A.G. Gancarski
Florida’s Attorney General is not on board with a decision made by a “leftist activist judge” to block further construction at Alligator Alcatraz.
James Uthmeier said Friday that the “sham lawsuit,” which drove the decision this week by Barack Obama appointee Kathleen Williams, applies inconsistent criteria to the ad hoc lockup for illegal immigrants who are to be deported from the converted airport in South Florida, and that environmental concerns are overblown.
“Not only does none of the Alligator Alcatraz infrastructure come anywhere close to the Everglades, but this is state land and a state facility. Our state jails don’t have to go through the process and Alligator Alcatraz shouldn’t have to either,” Uthmeier remarked Friday on Fox Business.
Williams ruled in favor of the Miccosukee Tribe and environmental groups that sought an injunction on new construction on the site.
However, Uthmeier notes that the ban on new builds will not frustrate the ultimate purpose of the project, which proceeds with infrastructure already installed.
“This temporary restraining order applies to future construction. Thankfully, Alligator Alcatraz is already built. It already houses thousands of detainees. It is operational and the deportations are ongoing,” Uthmeier said.
The Ron DeSantis appointee also offered assurances that inmates are in fine fettle.
“These detainees are getting all the resources they need. The food is fine, the air conditioning is fine. The areas of housing (are) totally fine. They can access attorneys, they can get health care needs. It is a one stop shop, but the goal is, get them there for a short time and then get them out back to where they came from.”
6 comments
Frankie M.
August 9, 2025 at 4:37 pm
Everything is fine. Nothing to see here. If he keeps saying it maybe he’ll start to believe it.
Steven P. Kirn, Ph.D.
August 9, 2025 at 4:47 pm
Note how ANY court decision that doesn’t go their way is chalked up to a Leftist Activist, or Radical, or even Lunatic judge. There is simply no possibility that they are simply out of bounds. Further, I do not find the name “Alligator Alcatraz” to be clever or funny in the slightest. It dehumanizes people, most of whom are there not because of any crime, but rather that they don’t have “the right papers”, even as the are seized while trying to do precisely that! What monsters have we become?
Singx2
August 10, 2025 at 5:10 pm
Alcatraz is where criminals were housed in confinement aka prison. People who break into the United States, coming in ILLEGALLY across the border is against FL and Federal law thus they are criminals.
Scott
August 10, 2025 at 10:59 am
As reporters, you couldn’t be bothered to look at a map and note that his statement about it not being in the Everglades was unequivocally false? How about providing context and facts rather than being a mere stenographer?
Hugh M
August 10, 2025 at 11:58 am
This is easily solved. Just deport them all and you’ll always have plenty of room.
Marsha Middleton
August 10, 2025 at 7:50 pm
The “crime” is at most a misdemeanor (not a felony like the President has 34 of). These people have not yet had “due process,” as the President did, so no one know if they are guilty.