GOP-led states are contemplating ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ knock offs, White House says | EUROtoday

As the opening of Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ is imminent, different states with Republican management have been in contact with the White House about opening comparable services, in keeping with a brand new report.

Last week, Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina tweeted a determined plea to the Department of Homeland Security for an ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ in her state.

“Dear DHS: We’ve got a swamp and a dream. Let’s talk. South Carolina’s gators are ready. And they’re not big on paperwork. If I was Governor, we’d be bringing Alligator Alcatraz to South Carolina,” she wrote.

In the wake of that message, a Fox News survey discovered {that a} handful of the 26 states with Republican governors have plans for the same migrant jail camp of their states.

Representatives for the governor’s workplaces in Georgia and Arkansas confirmed that building is underway on services that may maintain hundreds of migrants.

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A spokesman for South Carolina’s Governor Henry McMaster stated that the administration is “exploring how the Palmetto State’s unique assets and resources can be utilized to provide additional and enhanced support in the weeks and months to come.”

Other states responded positively to Florida’s efforts and the Trump administration’s controversial insurance policies involving the detention of migrants, however didn’t specify plans for their very own “Alligator Alcatraz.”

On Tuesday, the White House deputy chief of employees, Stephen Miller, known as on different states to comply with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ lead and to construct comparable prisons of their states throughout an look on Laura Ingraham’s present.

“We want to go to every Republican state – now, of course, in a sane country, Democrats would do it, too, but they love the illegals and they hate the Americans. We want every governor of a red state, and if you are watching tonight: pick up the phone, call DHS, work with us to build facilities in your state so we can get the illegals out and we can get the criminals out,” Miller stated.

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The first detainees arrived Thursday on the facility, which can price $450 million to function and consists of tents and trailers surrounded by razor wire on swampland about 45 miles west of downtown Miami.

Republicans named it after what was as soon as one of the vital infamous prisons within the U.S. and have billed it as a short lived lockup that’s important to Trump’s immigration crackdown.

Opponents decry it as a political stunt and concern it may turn into a everlasting fixture. The Republican Party of Florida has taken to fundraising off the detention heart, promoting branded T-shirts and beer koozies emblazoned with the power’s identify.

“The proposal was rolled out without any public input in one of the most ecologically sensitive regions of Florida, and arguably the United States,” stated Eve Samples, govt director of Friends of the Everglades, which is amongst environmental teams which have sued to cease the undertaking.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.