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Federal judge orders construction pause at Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' migrant detention center

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Posted by Fred 2025-08-09 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [91 views ] Top
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#1 ...by several environmental groups arguing that federal agencies did not assess the potential impacts the facility may have on the wetlands and endangered species in the Florida Everglades.

It's on a pre-existing airport. All that paperwork has already been done.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-08-09 07:08|| 2025-08-09 07:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Alligator Alcatraz

Alligator Alcatraz is an immigration detention facility erected at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport inside Big Cypress National Preserve in Ochopee, Florida, United States.

Fascinating to me -
Begun in 1968 as the Everglades Jetport ... the airport was planned to be the largest airport in the world, covering 39 square miles (100 km2) with six runways, and connected to both central Miami and the Gulf of Mexico by an expressway and monorail line. The airport would have been five times the size of JFK Airport in New York.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-08-09 07:20|| 2025-08-09 07:20|| Front Page Top

#3 I remember the acquisition and building of Denver's international airport @1995.

I think it's probably time to buy swampland west of Miami.

South Florida was viewed as an ideal location for an intercontinental SST hub due to the limitation that such aircraft would have to fly over water.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-08-09 07:26|| 2025-08-09 07:26|| Front Page Top

#4 2 weeks. That sounds like they are engaged in delays and fakery while avoiding Supreme Court rulings that permanently alter the framework of their scams.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-08-09 08:00|| 2025-08-09 08:00|| Front Page Top

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