Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) revealed that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had started “deportation flights” out of “Alligator Alcatraz” — the migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades.
In a post on X, DeSantis highlighted how Florida turned the Miami-Dade Collier Training Facility into a detention center to house, process, and deport illegal aliens. The Florida governor added that deportation flights out of the facility were “underway.”
“We stood up Alligator Alcatraz in just eight days as a centralized facility for deportation staging,” DeSantis said in his post. “The facility has a two-mile runway that allows federal military aircraft to transport illegal aliens out of the country, right on site.”
“These deportation flights operated by DHS are underway, and we will support efforts to increase cadence of the flights so that the number of illegal aliens deported keeps increasing,” DeSantis added. “This is a mandate set upon us by the American people.”
As Breitbart News has reported, some of the migrants being detained at Alligator Alcatraz include an MS-13 gang member called Oscar “Satan” Sanchez, whose rap sheet “includes assault and conspiracy to commit murder.” Another migrant detained at the facility includes a Guatemalan migrant whose rap sheet includes “burglary of an occupied dwelling”:
For example, one inmate at Alligator Alcatraz is an MS-13 member named Oscar “Satan” Sanchez. His rap sheet includes assault and conspiracy to commit murder in New York.”
A Guatemalan migrant by the name of Luis Donaldo Corado is also at the facility and has a criminal history that includes “burglary of an occupied dwelling, forced entry, and voyeurism.”
The facility, which opened at the beginning of the month, was reported to have more than 400 security personnel and 1,000 staffers, and also has “ten miles of Everglades on every side of the facility.”