Nearly 70 Florida National Guard troops have been activated to secure the controversial migrant detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” the Pentagon confirmed Wednesday. The troops will provide base camp security at the Everglades-based facility, located at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport.
The deployment follows a pledge by Gov. Ron DeSantis to send 100 troops. Donald Trump toured the site Tuesday, calling it “surrounded by miles of treacherous swampland” where “the only way out is really deportation.”
Estimated to cost $450 million annually, the facility could house up to 5,000 migrants awaiting deportation. Democrats have blasted the complex, with Rep. Maxwell Frost calling it “an internment camp” and urging its closure. Twenty-four House Democrats joined that call Wednesday.
The move is part of Trump’s broader immigration crackdown. Over 13,000 service members are already deployed to support enforcement operations nationwide, with deportations expected to increase following the Senate’s passage of a new spending bill boosting immigration funding.
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