DeSantis Pushes Controversial Immigration Detention Site on Sacred Native Land Amidst Outcry

Florida’s aggressive move to establish a temporary immigration detention camp in the heart of the Everglades is provoking justified outrage among Native American communities and environmental advocates alike. Governor Ron DeSantis’ administration has begun construction at a county-owned airstrip within Big Cypress National Preserve—land that the Miccosukee and Seminole tribes have called home for thousands of years.The site, derisively nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz,” is slated to confine up to 1,000 migrants inside an array of tents, trailers, and temporary structures surrounded by Florida’s wild wetlands. State officials dismiss the area as little more than habitat for pythons and alligators, but this...