The coalition of the groups, from environmental activists to local Americans, who advocated their ancestors’ homeland, came to Florida Everglades on Saturday to protest the unavoidable construction of the immigrant detention center.
Hundreds of protesters have covered the US 41 highway, which through the swampy Everglades – also known as Tamami Trail – as a dump truck truck transporting materials lined with aerodrome. Cars passing through the support when protesters waved signs to protect the extended reserve, with several local tribes and several endangered animal species.
Ecologist Christopher McVoy said he had seen a constant truck flow to the site before he protested for several hours. Environmental degradation was a big reason he appeared on Saturday. However, as a commissioner of the South Florida city, he said the concern about immigration raids in his city also encouraged his opposition.
“The people I know are tears, and I wasn’t far from it,” he said.
Florida officials went ahead last week to build a compound called “alligator alcatraz” in the wet Everglades sips.
The government quickly watched the project on the basis of the Government Executive Order issued by the head of government, Ronas Desust, who is examining what he believes is a crisis of illegal immigration. This order allows the state to bypass certain procurement laws, so the construction continued despite the Miami-Dade mayor Daniella Levine Cava and local activists’ contradictions.
The site will have temporary structures such as heavy tents and trailers that contain detained immigrants. The state estimates that it will operate 5,000 immigration beds by the beginning of July.
Proponents of the compound noted that the Florida swamps have its location – going to huge reptiles such as alligators and invasive Burmese Pythons – this is the ideal place for the detention of immigration.
“Of course, from a security point of view, if someone escapes, you know, there are a lot of alligators,” Diris said on Wednesday. “No one goes anywhere.”
In the descent, Florida aggressively sought immigration and maintained a broader deal of the federal government with illegal immigration. The US Homeland Security Department sponsored Aligator Alcatraz, which DHS Secretary Kristi NOEM claimed to be partially funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
However, local American leaders regarded construction as an attack on their holy homeland, which led to Saturday’s protest. 15 traditional Miccosukee and seminole villages, as well as solemn and burial sites and other gatherings, remain in the Big Cypress National Reserve, where the air bar is located.
Others are concerned about human rights about what they condemn as inhuman immigrants. The environmental concerns also arose at the forefront as group such as the Biodiversity Center and Everglades Friends on Friday filed a lawsuit to stop the detention center’s plans.
“Everglades is a huge, connected water and wetland system, and what happens in one area can have a harmful impact on downstream,” said Everglades Executive Director Eve Samples friends. “So it is very important that we have a clear understanding of any effect on the wetland on the site.”
Bryan Griffin, a “Desnti” spokesman, said Friday in response to the litigation process that this institution is “necessary for stopping operation for mass deportations at an existing airport that will have no effect on the surrounding environment.”
Until the site is done with a detailed view of the environment and public comments are being sought, environmental groups say that construction should be a break. The fast institution is “condemning evidence” that state and federal agencies expect it to be “too late” to change their actions if they are told to do so, “said Elise Bennett, a biodiversity senior attorney in the case working in the case.
Potential environmental risks also emerged from other aspects of Everglades’ life, including a solid tourism industry, where travelers go along the paths and explore swamps on air boats, said Jessica Namath, founder of Public Lands, who has been involved in the protest. There, in order to place the Immigration Detention Center, visitors are undesirable for visitors and the misconception that the space is “nowhere in the middle,” she said.
“Everyone here sees exhaust smoke, sees oil bursts on the road, you know, they hear sound and noise pollution. You can imagine what it looks like at night, and we’re in the international Dark Sky area,” said Namath.