Everglades Detention Center "Alligator Alcatraz" Shuts Down

Ryan, Dana, and Read Shepherd discuss Governor Ron DeSantis announcing that the Everglades detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” has been vacated. They discuss the closure, what led to it, and what could happen next for the site.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
What else going on this morning?

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Greet?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Okay, well, this may turn out to be the last
time we talk about Alligator Alcatraz. The signs have all
been taken down. You now see the sign for the
date call your training and Transition airport once again. So
if you want to go practice takeoffs and landings in
the middle of the Everglades, there you go. You've you've

(00:31):
got it. All the detainees apparently have been cleared out.
Governor DeSantis invested over a billion dollars to transform the
runway into a detention center, but now looks like no
one was ever there.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yeah, you want to see what a billion dollars do?
You want to see what a billion dollars looks like.
One second it's there and then the next second it's not.
That's pretty much.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Where we got.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
So there's so many calls come and pick up all
their those are overhead picked.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
There's some there's some pictures taken. You know, they're in
the Miami Herald, the overhead shots of the it's now
a runway again. It's it's just a you know what
it was what it always was, a runway out in
the middle of the Everglades. So there you go.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
There is something that the Attorney General could investigate, perhaps
investigate how we lost a billion dollars taxpayer money with
Alligator Alcatraz and why we handed out all these ridiculous contracts,
no big contracts that cost a freaking Oh that's right.
It was his idea in the first place.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
It was.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
It was great. Pr it was a great video, the merge. Yeah, yeah,
it was great.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
A great little blue sign out there, Alligator Alcatraz.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
I wonder if the alligators are sitting there, like, what
the hell was that all about? You know, all this
activity all of a sudden, the mosquitoes disappointed now because
they had all these people to feast.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
On for a little while, and now they're gone.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Now it's quiet like it was never there. Read Shepherd
with today's stop stories. Read thanks so much, Thank you.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
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