While Democrat lawmakers and their sock puppets in the quasi-official Democrat state media continue to howl at the moon (lie their patooties off) over the concocted horrors of Florida's Alligator Alcatraz detention and processing center for illegal aliens, the Sunshine State is reportedly preparing a second facility for illegals, with public records pointing to a "North Detention Center," as reported by the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper.
Incidentally, before we continue, to hear the Democrats talk (lie), you'd think illegal aliens ("undocumented immigrants," in Democrat-speak) — untold numbers of whom were convicted of violent crimes in their various countries of origin — are being mercilessly shipped to Alligator Alley in the Everglades, in which oodles of hungry alligators await their arrival, as do blood-sucking mosquitos and all sorts of other awful creatures, and left to fend for themselves. Not even close.
While the detention center isn't exactly the Waldorf Astoria, the "worst of the worst" illegals allowed into the U.S. during the four disastrous years of the Biden-Harris administration aren't exactly first-class vacationers, either.
The second facility in north Florida has already been identified as Camp Blanding, a "73,000-acre premier training center for Florida National Guard units."
Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has answered questions for weeks about the possibility of transforming the facility into a second detention center. DeSantis said in July (emphasis, mine):
I’m willing to do Blanding once Alligator Alcatraz is filled, and so DHS has started moving in a significant number of people. I think you’re going to — and they’re starting to deport people from there too. Remember, this is not the Ritz Carlton, ok?
We’re not doing this just to let people have food and shelter, although they do get that. But the reality is it’s there to be a quick processing center so that they can — we have a runway right there, they can just be flown back to their home country. So that is the purpose of why we’re doing it. And as that fills, once there’s a demand, then we would be able to go for Camp Blanding.
But what I don’t want to do is set up Blanding, if, you know, one is 60 percent full and then the other is 40 percent [full]. I’d rather just have — channel everyone to Alligator, since it’s easier. We have not yet received that many illegal aliens yet there, but it has grown pretty quickly.
Regardless of histrionic wailing by Democrats and the left-wing media to the contrary, the idea of a second Florida facility is not only sound — as efficient processing centers for illegals on their way out of the country — but it also makes sense to consider the benefits of building detention centers in other states, as well.
As RedState reported on Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced that Alligator Alcatraz will serve as a model for state-run ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) detention facilities in several other states.
Noem told CBS News that additional facilities are being considered in Arizona, Nebraska, and Louisiana:
The locations we're looking at are right by airport runways that will help give us an efficiency that we've never had before.
READ MORE: Alligator Alcatraz Goes National? Kristi Noem Wants Florida-Style Detention Centers in Other States.
By the way, I "might" have recently bought an Alligator Alcatraz cap, which is awesome.
Editor’s Note: Democrat politicians and their radical supporters will do everything they can to interfere with and threaten ICE agents enforcing our immigration laws.
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