The administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) defiantly said it would make the metal cages used to confine immigrant detainees at “Alligator Alcatraz” even smaller if it could, after a government watchdog found the enclosures to be inhumane and said that they violated Immigration and Customs Enforcement rules.
Alex Lanfranconi, the governor’s director of communications, made the remark in an emailed statement to the Miami Herald, responding to a Sept. 11 report by the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general.
Inspectors found that the state-run Everglades detention center confined 79 detainees in small metal enclosures of about 18 square feet each, according to the report.
“The left-wing media wants to focus on a confinement area for violent criminal aliens who have proven they cannot remain peaceful while awaiting deportation,” Lanfranconi said. “While it adheres to all federal standards for criminal confinement, we’d make it even smaller if we could.”
“At least ten million illegal aliens entered our country under the Biden administration,” he added. “Florida decided to do something about it.”
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