Alligator Alcatraz!
Catchy name, but everything else about it is wrong.
It seems that the governments (Federal and Florida) are excited about the prospect of opening an immigrant detention camp in the middle of the Everglades on an abandoned airfield.
The worst to operate the facility annually will be $450M to house up to 5,000 immigrants pending deportation.
I did the math.
It comes to $90K per year per person (a/k/a detainee) housed at the facility.
That money comes through Medicaid cuts and other programmatic reductions for Americans! This makes no sense. Are we becoming a country of prisons and camps.
The airfield was abandoned for a good reason some 50 years ago: to preserve the environment. Reactivating the airfield and housing people there is a bad decision made by people who have no regard for either less fortunate Americans or the environment.
The math is not good for the economy or the environment.
Who comes up with these crazy ideas?
-- Bob Doan, Tequesta, FL
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