NO WHERE TO RUN: Florida official proposes novel idea for massive new immigrant detention facility

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From News4JAX: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is proposing to build a large immigrant detention center in the middle of the Florida Everglades.

In an interview with Fox Business, Uthmeier said he wants to establish the state’s largest immigration facility at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, a 30-square-mile property in Miami-Dade County, which has been used for military and law enforcement training. He said the site was picked because it already has an airstrip, and the proposal would include flying people directly out from the site for deportation.

The Everglades surrounds the remote area, but it is not part of the Everglades National Park.

“If somebody were to get out, there’s nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, only the alligators and pythons are waiting. That’s why I like to call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’” Uthmeier told Fox Business.

He said the facility would hold about 1,000 illegal aliens, and would serve as a three-in-one center for detaining, processing legal cases, and deporting migrants.

Uthmeier posted a video promoting the idea on X around noon Thursday.

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Uthmeier now has another issue to wade through.

From the Associated Press: ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday found Florida’s attorney general to be in civil contempt over her ruling that put on hold a new state law making it a misdemeanor for people living in the U.S. illegally to enter the state.

U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams said that Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier was unconvincing in his arguments that he didn’t flout her injunction putting the law on hold. Uthmeier had sent out a memo saying the judge was legally wrong and that he couldn’t prevent police officers and deputies from enforcing the law. A contempt hearing was held two weeks ago in Miami.

“Litigants cannot change the plain meaning of words as it suits them, especially when conveying a court’s clear and unambiguous order,” Williams wrote. “Fidelity to the rule of law can have no other meaning.”

For sanctions, the judge ordered Uthmeier to file biweekly reports to her about whether any arrests, detentions or law enforcement actions have been made under the law, which is being challenged in court by immigrant rights groups.

“If being held in contempt is what it costs to defend the rule of law and stand firmly behind President Trump’s agenda on illegal immigration, so be it,” Uthmeier declared.

Uthmeier discussed the leftist judge’s ruling in an interview with Fox News host John Roberts:

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