Protesters line highway in Florida Everglades to oppose 'Alligator Alcatraz'

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Source: AP

Updated 8:40 PM EDT, June 28, 2025


A coalition of groups, ranging from environmental activists to Native Americans advocating for their ancestral homelands, converged outside an airstrip in the Florida Everglades Saturday to protest the imminent construction of an immigrant detention center.

Hundreds of protesters lined part of U.S. Highway 41 that slices through the marshy Everglades — also known as Tamiami Trail — as dump trucks hauling materials lumbered into the airfield. Cars passing by honked in support as protesters waved signs calling for the protection of the expansive preserve that is home to a few Native tribes and several endangered animal species.

Christopher McVoy, an ecologist, said he saw a steady stream of trucks entering the site while he protested for hours. Environmental degradation was a big reason why he came out Saturday.

But as a South Florida city commissioner, he said concerns over immigration raids in his city also fueled his opposition. “People I know are in tears, and I wasn’t far from it,” he said. Florida officials have forged ahead over the past week in constructing the compound dubbed as “Alligator Alcatraz” within the Everglades’ humid swamplands.

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[Timeflyer]

1. Another example of DeSantis and his moneyed donors exploiting OUR FL for their personal power and wealth.

Those are some hearty, tough protestors, to stand outside in FL sun for hours. But to the Tallahassee Tyrant they are as ants. He'll be mocking them in public soon--I'd put money on it if I had any.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. It seems like DeSatan

has been cut off from "the 45 clique" and keeps trying to join in and is continually rebuffed. So he'll pick fights with his own legislature and run around trying to get into a news cycle, but I guess he hasn't been willing to prostrate to 45 enough to mirror the ultimate FL zombie - Little Marco.