The demonstrators are on the highway in Florida Evergels to oppose the “Crocodile Crocodile”
An alliance of groups, from environmental activists to the indigenous Americans defending their ancestral home, on Saturday outside the Florida Evergels Air Force to protest against an imminent construction of the migrant detention center.
Hundreds of demonstrators lined up part of the 41 American highway that decreases through the Evergels swipped – also known as Tamiami Trail – as emptying trucks that transport the airport -filled materials. Cars that pass by Honked in support where demonstrators have waved signs calling for the protection of a wide reserve that is home to some of the original tribes and many endangered animal species.
Christopher McAfaoui, the environment scientist, said he saw a steady stream of trucks entering the site while protesting hours. The environmental deterioration was a great cause of Saturday. But as a commissioner in the city of South Florida, he said that concerns about the immigration raids in his city had fueled his opposition.
He said: “The people I know cry, and I was not far from it.”
Florida officials moved forward during the past week in building the complex, which is called its name “Crocodile Crocodile” Within the humid Swamplands of Everglades.
The government has followed the project, according to the emergency powers of the executive order issued by the governor of the state, Ron Desantis, is addressing what it considers a crisis of illegal immigration. This allows the state to avoid some purchase laws, and this is the reason why construction continues despite the objections of the mayor of Miami Dead Daniela Levin Cava and local activists.
The facility will have temporary structures such as arduous tents and trailers to accommodate detained immigrants. The state estimates that by early July, it will have 5,000 beds of immigration detention.
Native American leaders in the region I saw the construction as an infringement of their holy countries, which prompted a protest on Saturday. In the Big Cypress National Reserve, where the aircraft landing is located, 15 traditional Mikosuki and Siminol villages are still in addition to festive lands, burial and other gathering sites.
Others raised human rights concerns about what they owe as an inhuman housing for immigrants. Fears about the environmental effects were at the forefront, such as groups such as the Biodiversity Center and the Everglades friends filed a lawsuit on Friday to stop the detention center plans.
“Everglades is a vast and interrelated system of waterways and wetlands, and what happens in an area that could have harmful effects in the direction of the river course,” said Eve Directive Friends of the Everglades. “So it is really important to have a clear feeling of any effects on the wetlands that occur on the site.”
“The facility was” a necessary launching process for a mass deportation located in an existing airport that will not have any impact on the surrounding environment. “
Until the site is subject to a comprehensive environmental review and the general suspension is requested, as environmental groups say, the construction must stop. Eliz Bennett, a center for biological diversity that works in the case, said that the fast establishment of the facility is “inflamed evidence” that federal agencies and federal agencies hope that it will be “too late” unlike their actions if the court orders this.