Will Trump visit 'Alligator Alcatraz'? FAA notice hints at presidential stop

Will Trump visit 'Alligator Alcatraz'? FAA notice hints at presidential stop

Main Image

<p>-

  • Will Trump visit 'Alligator Alcatraz'? FAA notice hints at presidential stop</p>

<p>Antonio Fins, USA TODAY Network June 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM</p>

<p>Is President Donald Trump heading to Florida's so-called "Alligator Alcatraz" immigration detention center?</p>

<p>The Federal Aviation Administration issued a "VIP Movement Notification" for Tuesday, July 1, for Ochopee, Fla. The alert is for a 30/10 NMR, which stands for a protective inner core radius of 10 nautical miles and an outer ring radius of 30 nautical miles.</p>

<p>Those distances are reserved for the U.S. president.</p>

<p>Ochopee is the site of Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport. It has been in the news for more than a week as the location of a planned immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades that has been dubbed Alligator Alcatraz.</p>

<p>However, a notice of temporary flight restrictions had not been posted by the FAA.</p>

<p>An attempt to seek confirmation Sunday from the White House on the president's travel plans this week was not successful. The president, who was focused on U.S. Senate passage of the massive GOP tax and spending bill all weekend, had not posted about a potential visit on his Truth Social account either.</p>

<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis did offer the president an invitation to visit the facility during a cable news interview.</p>

<p>The governor even said that Air Force One could land at the Everglades airstrip, once envisioned as an airport site. The first detainees from what Trump has promised will be the biggest immigration deportation crackdown in U.S. history are to arrive at the holding facility July 1.</p>

<p>"I think the president will be impressed with what these guys are doing out here," DeSantis said on the "Fox and Friends" program June 29.</p>

<p>Environmental groups sue to stop building Everglades detention center</p>

<p>Nonetheless, the development of a detention facility at the site near Everglades National Park is a source of contention.</p>

<p>Two groups, Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity, have filed a lawsuit against the Florida Division of Emergency Management, the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement to stop what they said is the "unlawful construction of a prison in the heart of the Everglades."</p>

<p>Sierra Club Florida also is opposed to the development, which it said is "irresponsible."</p>

<p>People gather in front of the access road into the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport to protest the construction of an immigrant detention center in the Big Cypress Wildlife Management Area on Saturday, June 28, 2025. The demonstration was led by Betty Osceola, an activist and a Miccosukee tribe member. A steady stream of trucks were seen going into the location. The location is being referred to as "Alligator Alcatraz."</p>

<p>"This proposal is not only deeply inhumane, it is profoundly irresponsible from an environmental, ethical, and fiscal standpoint," the state chapter of the national organization said in a statement June 24.</p>

<p>On Saturday, June 28, protesters gathered at the access road to the Dade-Collier Airport to protest the construction of the detention center. The demonstration was led by Betty Osceola, an activist and a member of the Miccosukee tribe.</p>

<p>Trump popular in Miami-Dade, but immigration conflicting supporters</p>

<p>The president's visit would come as his immigration policies are roiling Miam-Dade County, a jurisdiction that has been a longtime bastion of Hispanic population, business hub and political base. And a place where Republicans have made significant inroads in the Trump era.</p>

<p>Trump crushed Vice President Kamala Harris in the traditional blue county in the 2024 presidential balloting. He lost the county to President Joe Biden in 2020, though by a narrower margin than in 2016 against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.</p>

<p>But the crackdown on immigration, particularly detaining and deporting people with pending asylum and other status cases, has caused consternation. So has the administration's ending temporary protective status for Venezuelans and canceling a humanitarian parole program that benefited Cubans and Nicaraguans.</p>

<p>In this photo from February, President Trump arrives at Miami International Airport.</p>

<p>Earlier this month, state Sen. Ileana Garcia, a Miami Republican, spoke out on X in a post highly critical of White House immigration adviser Stephen Miller.</p>

<p>"I understand the importance of deporting criminal aliens, but what we are witnessing are arbitrary measures to hunt down people who are complying with their immigration hearings — in many cases, with credible fear of persecution claims — all driven by a Miller-like desire to satisfy a self-fabricated deportation goal," wrote Garcia, a founder of the Latinas for Trump movement.</p>

<p>"This undermines the sense of fairness and justice that the American people value," she said.</p>

<p>Another southern Miami-Dade County immigration holding facility, the Krome Detention Center, has been the site of protests. Activists and attorneys for some of those being held there have decried the conditions and overcrowding.</p>

<p>People gather in front of the access road into the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport to protest the construction of an immigrant detention center in the Big Cypress Wildlife Management Area on Saturday, June 28, 2025. The demonstration was led by Betty Osceola, an activist and a Miccosukee tribe member. A steady stream of trucks were seen going into the location. The location is being referred to as "Alligator Alcatraz."</p>

<p>While critical of the Biden Administration's border policies, Miami's three Cuban-American members of Congress, Mario-Diaz-Balart, Carlos Gimenez and Maria Elvira Salazar, have also supported continuing TPS coverage for Venezuleans. In May, the three, all Republicans, issued a statement saying they "have consistently supported and will continue to support Temporary Protected Status" for Venezuelans in the United States.</p>

<p>"There is a clear distinction between individuals, such as members of the Tren de Aragua who exploited Biden's open border and wreaked havoc on American communities, and the many Venezuelans who have arrived in our country, fleeing the political crises under the repressive dictatorship of [Nicolás] Maduro with legitimate claims of persecution," the lawmakers said.</p>

<p>Antonio Fins is a politics and business editor at The Palm Beach Post, part of the USA TODAY Florida Network. You can reach him at [email protected].</p>

<p>This article originally appeared on USATNetwork: Will Trump visit 'Alligator Alcatraz'?</p>

Read original article


Source: AOL Politics

Читать на сайте


Source: AsherMag

Full Article on Source: Astro Blog

#LALifestyle #USCelebrities

 

VOUXi MAG © 2015 | Distributed By My Blogger Themes | Designed By Templateism.com