Tricia McLaughlin, the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has revealed that the FEMA funding intended for housing illegal immigrants under President Biden will be diverted in part to help build Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz.'
If you haven't heard about this thing yet, please go check out RedState Editor Bob Hoge's excellent report.
Alligator Alcatraz is a brilliant, cost-effective detention facility in Florida’s Everglades, designed to securely hold criminal illegal immigrants with natural barriers like alligators and pythons, ensuring no escapes. It’s a bold step by Florida officials to enforce immigration laws and maintain community safety.
This thing is 'Florida Man' on steroids. And it's something right out of the Trump playbook. It turns out that the administration will reportedly be contributing to the effort.
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"I want to talk about the funding for this," McLaughlin said in an interview with the Fox News show "America Reports."
"Some of it will be paid by the state of Florida, but a lot of it will be paid by the federal government," she revealed. "We're actually looking at FEMA to fund this."
"Through the Shelter and Services Program, which we saw in the Biden administration, that funding was bastardized to use for places like the Roosevelt Hotel, which is the place that housed Tren de Aragua—was really the base of operations there, as well as Laken Riley's killer—so we're going to take that funding and actually house these illegal aliens before we get them out the door and out of our country."
FEMA's Shelter and Services Program – a program under Biden that provided grants to communities to address the rapid influx of illegals – ballooned from $363.8 million in 2023 to $650 million the following year. The Roosevelt is a luxury hotel, which Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem revealed was utilized by the notorious TDA gang.
Speaking of Noem, she praised the Sunshine State for its 'Alligator Alcatraz' project and confirmed that federal funding would be utilized in its construction and operation.
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"They (Florida) were willing to build it and do it much quicker than what some of the other vendors were. And it was a real solution that we’ll be able to utilize if we need to,” Noem told the Associated Press.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis recently gave “Fox and Friends” co-host Steve Doocy a sneak peek at the new facility.
“This is going to be able to have more than 3,000 illegals can be processed through here, we’ve got a massive runway behind us, where any federal assets they want to fly these people back to their own country, they can do it, one-stop shop," DeSantis said.
He described the daunting issues facing any illegal aliens who try to escape the facility.
“If a criminal alien were to escape from here somehow, and I don't think they will, you've got nowhere to go. I mean, what are you going to do? Trudge through the swamp and dodge alligators on the way back 50, 60 miles just to get to civilization?" he explained. "Not going to happen.”
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