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Speaker 1 (00:00):
As we speak, Governor Ron de Santas in Florida is
giving Steve Doucy a personal tour of Alligator Alcatraz. This
is an emergency situation to put these people over there,
to keep these migrants safe until they can deport it.
Evan Brown in South Florida joining us now, Good morning, Evan,
thanks for being here.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well, I got to kind of like this idea, alligators
and pythons surrounding the place in case you want to
run have at it. Go a little price adventure, though,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Well not really. It's something that the state of Florida
is footing most of the bill here, for we have
a multi billion dollars a surplus in the state. So
oh ok, take a couple million or one hundred million
even from it and do this. It's something that is
being constructed at an old airstrip. It was built back
in the sixties and it was called Everglades Jetport. It
(00:52):
was never really used. It got taken over by Miami
Dade County and turned into a training facility back in
the day PanAm I think it was pan It was
Eastern one of those used to train pilots on seven
forty sevens out there, So it's a big runway and
it's got an adjacent taxiway like most big runways do,
(01:13):
and some other paved areas as you can see if
you're watching it along with us on television. But it's
enough space to PLoP down a bunch of prefab housing
units and dining facilities and bathroom and hygiene stations and
all that stuff. It needs to be powered with generators,
it needs some artificial lighting for nighttime. It needs portable
(01:36):
water trucked in. But it's out in the middle of
absolutely nowhere. It's very far away from the developed areas
of Miami Dade County. It's close to some Native American
villages and they're not too thrilled about it, but it
is still pretty far away from them, and of course,
being surrounded by reptiles that can eat you or swallow
(01:57):
you whole is certainly a deterrent from trying to escape.
I think the thought is is that most people who
are sent here won't be there very long anyway, as
they're going to be perhaps slated for deportations, so there'll
be kind of a never transient population there. But it
is something that is being stood up to be able
to aid ICE in their ability to house detained migrants,
(02:21):
as their facilities are kind of stretched a bit thin.
They are already contracting with other states and other you know,
other state or local facilities to house them. There's also
some are being housed in federal prisons. But this is
just another another resource for that.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I'm sure you've been out to the Glades living down there.
I used to live in Kendall, Florida, west of Miami,
headed towards the Everglades, and we rode over there and
a lot of people go over and take airboat rides
and things like that. But there are lots of alligators,
that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
And I may it's out even beyond those those airboat
rides and the Shark Valley part of the National Park.
It's so far out. It's even further out from Miami
than where the Value jet crash happened in the nineteen
ninety It's really out there.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah, and it kind of is it an island that's
or is it kind of in the is it it's
still landlocked or not?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And that's in the middle of what right by the
Dade Callier Line actually call your county, being the county
to the west of Miami Dade, and it's that area
is also known as Big Cyprus, so it's but it's
it's there's really nothing out there except the.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Well in the swamp and the Everglades and surrounded by
all that good East gators and pythons that are not
indigenous there it's from people letting them live are.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, they're not indigenous and they've been a nuisance for
a long time. That's why there's hunting season for pythons
here to try to thin out the population. But they
are large. They get to be fifteen seventeen feet long.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Oh yeah, there Yanks. Interesting, very cool, all right, Evan,
thank you so much, buddy. I appreciate you have a
good way.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Jeff
As we speak, Governor Ron de Santas in Florida is
giving Steve Doucy a personal tour of Alligator Alcatraz. This
is an emergency situation to put these people over there,
to keep these migrants safe until they can deport it.
Evan Brown in South Florida joining us now, Good morning, Evan,
thanks for being here.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well, I got to kind of like this idea, alligators
and pythons surrounding the place in case you want to
run have at it. Go a little price adventure, though,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Well not really. It's something that the state of Florida
is footing most of the bill here, for we have
a multi billion dollars a surplus in the state. So
oh ok, take a couple million or one hundred million
even from it and do this. It's something that is
being constructed at an old airstrip. It was built back
in the sixties and it was called Everglades Jetport. It
(00:52):
was never really used. It got taken over by Miami
Dade County and turned into a training facility back in
the day PanAm I think it was pan It was
Eastern one of those used to train pilots on seven
forty sevens out there, So it's a big runway and
it's got an adjacent taxiway like most big runways do,
(01:13):
and some other paved areas as you can see if
you're watching it along with us on television. But it's
enough space to PLoP down a bunch of prefab housing
units and dining facilities and bathroom and hygiene stations and
all that stuff. It needs to be powered with generators,
it needs some artificial lighting for nighttime. It needs portable
(01:36):
water trucked in. But it's out in the middle of
absolutely nowhere. It's very far away from the developed areas
of Miami Dade County. It's close to some Native American
villages and they're not too thrilled about it, but it
is still pretty far away from them, and of course,
being surrounded by reptiles that can eat you or swallow
(01:57):
you whole is certainly a deterrent from trying to escape.
I think the thought is is that most people who
are sent here won't be there very long anyway, as
they're going to be perhaps slated for deportations, so there'll
be kind of a never transient population there. But it
is something that is being stood up to be able
to aid ICE in their ability to house detained migrants,
(02:21):
as their facilities are kind of stretched a bit thin.
They are already contracting with other states and other you know,
other state or local facilities to house them. There's also
some are being housed in federal prisons. But this is
just another another resource for that.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I'm sure you've been out to the Glades living down there.
I used to live in Kendall, Florida, west of Miami,
headed towards the Everglades, and we rode over there and
a lot of people go over and take airboat rides
and things like that. But there are lots of alligators,
that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
And I may it's out even beyond those those airboat
rides and the Shark Valley part of the National Park.
It's so far out. It's even further out from Miami
than where the Value jet crash happened in the nineteen
ninety It's really out there.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah, and it kind of is it an island that's
or is it kind of in the is it it's
still landlocked or not?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And that's in the middle of what right by the
Dade Callier Line actually call your county, being the county
to the west of Miami Dade, and it's that area
is also known as Big Cyprus, so it's but it's
it's there's really nothing out there except the.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Well in the swamp and the Everglades and surrounded by
all that good East gators and pythons that are not
indigenous there it's from people letting them live are.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, they're not indigenous and they've been a nuisance for
a long time. That's why there's hunting season for pythons
here to try to thin out the population. But they
are large. They get to be fifteen seventeen feet long.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Oh yeah, there Yanks. Interesting, very cool, all right, Evan,
thank you so much, buddy. I appreciate you have a
good way.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Jeff
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