Eben Brown and JT discuss Alligator Alcatraz

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kevin Brown joins us now our Fox correspondent in South Florida. Evan,
please tell me you're going to be an alligator Alcatraz today?

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Not today? No, No, I've been out that way before.
Have you been to the alligators?

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Have you been to this place?

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Not this exact place? You know, there's a spot in
the Everglades National Park called Shark Valley. You can look
this up online and it's not too far from where
this is, but it allows you to walk around down
some paths or take a tram ride and there's there
are no fences keeping those alligators away from you, so
you will get pretty close alligators if you like. I

(00:37):
got within about ten feet. That's as far as I
would like to get.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Photographs when you were close to them. Were you in
an airboat or a bus or were you on the
ground with your feet ten feet away from them? No?
Thank you. I used to live in Kendall, Florida, which
is west of Miami. We've talked about this and on
the way to the Everglades, but not quite there. And
I remember, you know, I'd see people all the time

(01:04):
where you headed. Or you take the airboat out today
and you go down to the Glades and I saw,
you know, to be kind of fairboats.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Airboats are fun. I mean you could do those too,
where you can go to Shark Valley and walk or
take the tram and get real close.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yeah, no, thank you. So today the president's coming in,
he's going to take a look and see what's going on.
Huge runway eleven thousand foot are there, and it's been
around for quite some time now, for decades. Well, this
place originally was meant to be the biggest airport in
the world, wasn't it at some point.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Well way back when it was called the Everglades Jetport.
It was supposed to be a big deal. It ended
up becoming a training facility that no one really used.
I think back in the day it was either Easter
in it where it was pan Am, I can't remember
which one. But they would train pilots to fly the
seven forty sevens because the runway is that big. And
obviously if Air Force one is landing there, which is

(01:52):
a modified seven forty seven, it can host them. So
it's a big you know, it's a rather sizable facility,
and it hadn't been doing much of anything for a
long time, and so they're using it to pop up
this facility for housing criminal migrants who will be deported,
and I think the plan is is that to put

(02:12):
them on flights right there and get them out. So,
you know, from a logistics perspective, it made a lot
of sense.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
All right, Well, let me ask you this. I mean,
the left is screaming in humane treatment. Oh, it's going
to be awful. There's no air conditioning, don't have ice, water,
no lemon tea for these people. It's terrible. Well, Christy
has said, look, this is for some of the worst
scumbags who have entered the United States illegally. So your
thoughts on what this is actually going to be like

(02:42):
they have where they tents or they're you know, big
metal buildings for these people, or what's the housing going
to be like?

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yeah, so it looks like from what I've been able
to see, there have been these prefab units for housing,
for dining facilities, for bathrooms and whatnot. It's a truck
in obviously putable water, they generators running, and it's not
all that different from what the military contractors like Sake, Halliburton, Kellogg,
Brown and Root and whatnot we're doing for our troops.

(03:12):
In the Middle East when they would pop up these
forward operating bases around Iraq and whatnot. I have stated
those they're not bad for what they are, and yes
they are air conditioned, so you know, there's really no
concern I think from what I've been able to see
that people's health will be really at risk. It's obviously
not going to be a five star hotel, but it's

(03:36):
not going to be you know, left to the elements,
and you know, I think the goal is not to
keep people there very long. That they're there and then
they're sent back to their countries of origin within some
kind of short order.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
It's a big area and good news is we're saving
money on Barbara fencing around the entire place because of
the alligators. But let me ask you about the number
of people that they can house there.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Thousands, I think that's the number. I've heard.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, yeah, And then they're there, then they go and
they move along, and I guess today is today ribbon cutting,
grand opening. I mean we shipping them in as I believe.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
I believe this is the big, the big ceremony, and
that they're going to start. If they're not doing it today,
it'll be within the next day or two, they start
hosting the captured migrants or the arrested migrants, whatever the
term might be. And yeah, I think they're supposed to
be able to house thousands of them. So this is
this is looking like a pretty good operation. The President

(04:34):
obviously coming down to take a look at it. The
State of Florida was very quick to stand this up
using the Department of Emergency Management here in the state,
and it looks like they will get some reimbursement from
the FEDS on this and then so there it is
an easy way to solve to solve a problem or
or satisfying need for this type of logistics, and everyone

(04:57):
seems to be quite happy about it. And yes, it
is surrounded by alligators and Burmese pythons, which you know,
so obviously if you try escaping, if you're not, you know, eaten,
you'll be swallowed.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
Home, all right, Evan, thank you so much for the update.
I appreciate you.