Florida’s racist, migrant-hating attorney general James Uthmeier is proposing to build an ICE detention center on a remote and mostly disused airstrip in the Everglades. This is the Dade-Collier Training Airport, of which only runway was ever built. The project has been dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” and would be built directly on the runway.
This project poaches on Miccosukee land and would be damaging to the Everglades as a whole. This is on top of the horrific abuse and even torture of detainees by ICE and their detention contractors.
With this in mind, protesters including the American Indian Movement (AIM), migrant rights activists, and environmentalists gathered off Tamiami Trail (US 41) in the Everglades, presumably as close to the proposed site as they could get.