'Alligator Alcatraz' detention center may be empty within days.

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/27/us/trump-news#alligator-alcatraz-immigration-center-empty

‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention center may be empty within days.

The number of people being held at an immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades has decreased sharply and may soon be down to zero, despite the state’s recent insistence that the 2,000 beds at the facility were desperately needed as part of President Trump’s crackdown on unauthorized immigrants.

Kevin Guthrie, the executive director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, wrote in an email on Friday that the detention center, known as Alligator Alcatraz, was “probably going to be down to 0 individuals within a few days.”

The email, obtained by The New York Times, was sent to the office of a South Florida rabbi in response to interfaith leaders who had asked whether they could minister to detainees inside the remote center.

The state has repeatedly declined to say how many detainees it was housing at the center, which opened in early July at a remote airfield. The email is the first sign that the center is not operating at or near capacity. It comes six days after a federal judge ordered that the facility be shut down.

Rabbi Mario Rojzman of the Beth Torah Benny Rok Campus, a synagogue in North Miami Beach, did not share the email with The Times, but he confirmed its authenticity. He said in a statement that Mr. Guthrie was responding to a request from him and from other members of an interfaith clergy group working with Miami People Acting for Community Together, a nonprofit organization.

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[MrWowWow]

1. What Ever Happened to the Reopening California's Alcatraz Plan?

Is that going to happen? Add an alligator moat to it, and Bob's yer uncle!

[newdeal2]

2. I suppose that would be the goal?

Not that I agree with any of this. But in theory that’s supposed to be temporary housing before deportation. So the numbers should decrease without a fresh supply of detainees.

[sakabatou]

3. So where was the waste and fraud team?

[FalloutShelter]

5. My thoughts exactly.

Is anyone keeping a running tab of every lunatic decision this maniac has manifested, that has ended in disaster?
From: DOGE, to Alligator Alcatraz, to our National Guardsmen picking up trash and spreading mulch in Washington D.C.,
to sending the Marines to L.A., to Paving over the Rose Garden and planning a Ballroom the size of a train station.
Not to mention his Golf outings and the fucking Plane that was a Gift?

I'm sure there is much more.
This is TAXPAYER money!

Is there a list?

Anybody? Congress?
Bueller?

[Irish_Dem]

8. How much did this scam cost the US taxpayer?

[Fiendish Thingy]

4. More proof that Trump is not omnipotent, and the people are not powerless. Nt

[LeftInTX]

6. What's Kristi Noem gonna do?

[Irish_Dem]

9. Find another place to wear her prison porn costume.

[durablend]

10. I know what she *should* do

But I won't repeat it.

[Buns_of_Fire]

7. Other than the obvious good news, it'll also free up space

for the likes of King Taco, Miller, Blondi, PuppyKiller, ElonX, Mr. Balls, Governor Go-Go Boots, etc., etc., etc.

Cheaper than flying them to Gitmo, although a few alterations will be necessary due to the incoming guest's exalted status: We'll spray-paint the chain-link "suites" gold.