Democrats have been whining since the day Alligator Alcatraz opened on July 1st… Now, illegal alien criminals who were being housed at AA are being flown out of it, and being deported, by the thousands… Now Debbie Wasserman-Schultz can find something else to whine about.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that Homeland Security has started flying migrants out of the “Alligator Alcatraz” detention facility.
“I’m pleased to report that those flights out of Alligator Alcatraz by DHS have begun. The cadence is increasing. We’ve already had a number of flights, in the last few days, we’ve had hundreds of illegals [that] have been removed from here,” DeSantis said Friday while speaking in South Florida.
When asked for the exact number of deportations and where the planes were heading to, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin delivered a one-line statement to Fox News Digital.
“Fire up the deportation planes,” she said.
DeSantis authorized the construction of the illegal immigrant detention center on a 30-square-mile property in the Everglades’ swamplands of Miami–Dade County under an emergency order. The property in Ochopee is a former airport that has been outfitted with sturdy tent structures.
The Florida Division of Emergency Management said the site has the capacity for 2,000 detainees but will eventually hold 4,000.