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The bright blue sign reading ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ outside the silver chain-link gate at Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport has been removed. The airstrip, formerly used to hold immigrants in industrial tents, is now cleared with only a few structures and cars remaining. And after Gov. Ron DeSantis invested over a billion dollars to transform the Everglades runway into an immigration detention center, it now looks as if that never occurred.
Aerial photos shared with the Miami Herald show that the airstrip, seized from Miami-Dade by the DeSantis administration through an emergency order, is mostly vacated. The now-closed first-of-its-kind state-run immigration detention center had been established to support the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign.
As of Sunday, people who have monitored the facility’s entrance since last summer told the Herald that the black-and-gold Florida Highway Patrol vehicles, which had been parked at the one-way entrance with their blue sirens flashing, had left. Only one unidentified vehicle remained, sometimes assisting with opening and closing the gate as cars entered; someone from the vehicle had keys to unlock the fence.
Overhead photos of the airstrip, shared with the Herald, also show that all the tents had been removed, leaving the airstrip bare.
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