Homeland Security Secretary Christie Nom says “Elegator Alkatraz“The state-driven migrant will work as a model for the preventive centers, and in an interview she told CBS News that she expects to launch similar detention centers in many airports and jails across the country in the coming months. Erizona, Nebraska and Louisiana are already disobedient.
“The places we are looking at is correct by the airport runway, which we had never done before,” NoM said, he said that he directly appeals to the governors and state leaders that they estimate their interest to contribute to the Trump administration’s program and to contribute more unauthorized migrants.
“Most of them are interested,” NoM said, saying that President supports Trump’s mission to achieve the southern border, “Many of them have features that may be empty or low.”
The Department of Homeland Security Strategy constructs a 3,000-bed immigration at the inauguration of the 3,000-bed immigration at a jetport in South Florida last month. Crocodile Alkatraz was dubbed by state and federal officials, Makeshift will be facilitated Estimated to operate $ 450 million In its first year. Running up and only 8 days, tents and trailers at the dad-callier training and transition airport are surrounded by 39 square mile isolated Swampland, which claims to be a trusted area and wildlife.
Last month, President Trump visited the feature, in which the bunk beds were seen behind the chain fence and surrounded by the razor wire. Mr. Trump jokingly told reporters that “We are going to teach him how to run away from a crocodile if they survive jail.” Asked whether the temporary facility is about to come, there will be a model, the President said that he wants to see similar operations in “many states”.
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Arizona’s Governor’s office told CBS News that he had not been contacted about the state -run facility.
For its share, NOEM called the crocodile Alkatraz model “much better” compared to the existing detention prototype, which largely contracts its immigration and customs enforcement prohibition capacity for profitable jail companies and county jails. ICE is an agency that comes under DHS. This model depends on the Inter -Government Services Agreements (IGSAS) and interaction and signed between ice and individual areas. He called the Florida feature-According to DHS officials, a cost-effective option with the final value tag of $ 245 per prisoner per night. “Obviously, this was much lower per-bed cost compared to the previous contracts under the Homeland Security Department.”
According to the office of Homeland Security Statistics, the estimated average daily cost of detaining an adult migrants in the financial year 2024 was approximately $ 165, although the actual cost of custody varies usually depending on the area, the length and convenience type.
Nevertheless, NOEM argued that the new locations, with close proximity to all airports or runways, will help cut the cost by “quick turnaround facility”.
“They are all strategically designed to ensure that people are in beds for less days,” Nom said, some features are being considered, still subject to the interaction by the department and ongoing interactions. “It can be much more efficient once they get their hearing, fixed process, paperwork.”
Unlike Elegator Alkatraz, which uses funds from a shelter, food and transport program operated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). NOEM said that the state-based initiative would tap in a new $ 45 billion funding pool for ice inspired by President Trump’s “Bade, Beautiful Bill”, which was which was Signed in law Last month. The pool of money is specially allocated to expand the detention network of ice and The agency’s bedspace will almost double 61,000 beds based on cost analysis. By Saturday, Ice was holding more than 57,000 persons in its detention network in over 150 features across the country.
NOEM- Those who have approved each contract individually and imposed a department-wide policy in DHS of more than $ 100,000-said that keeping snow prevention contracts for a period of less than five years now “has pushed the model for which we have pushed.” For example, he said, Elegator Alkatraz is a one -year contract that can be renewed.
“For me personally, the question about each of these contracts is why we are signing 15 years of deals?” Noam said. “I have to look at our mission. If we still build and process 100,000 detention beds after 15 years, we did not do our work.”
The new policy is a departure from earlier agreements under Trump Administration. In February, ice signed 15-year, a $ 1 billion deal with Jio GroupTo reopen a private jail company, Delane Hall, A two-storey, 1,000-bed facility that ranks into the largest detention centers in the Northeast,
Nevertheless, NoM said that he does not think America is moving away from a private detention model. “I mean, these are competitive contracts,” he said. “I want everyone to be on the table, give us a solution.
But Elegator Alkatraz has also claimed to the lawyers that both Trump and Desantis administration are violating their constitutional rights without allegations or access to immigration courts. Atorney Last month argued in a legal filing Unauthorized migrants held on the Florida-Run site have no legal support to challenge their custody.
Lawyers and experts have also questioned the very validity of a state-driven immigration prevention center, which is looking at the rights of the federal government on immigration enforcement. Opening the prevention center in Everglades under Florida’s emergency state powers marks a departure from the role of a federal government’s housing migrant prisoners, an option that is usually reserved for those who have recently illegally entered the country or criminal convicted people.
Last week, an American District Judge ordered the state and federal officials to provide a copy of the agreement showing “who is running” at the Everglads Immigrant-Detention Center.
Kevin Landy, director of Detention Policy and Planning for ICE under President Barack Obama, said, “Florida does not have the legal right to detain unwarded migrants in the absence of a contract with ICE.” “A state government cannot do this.”
Elegator held in Alkatraz Also claimed unnatural and inhuman conditionsFood with Magots, refusal to religious rights and limited access to both legal aid and water. Florida officials denied the allegations.
Nevertheless, Florida was stuck in Everglades, 45 miles west of Miami, if its location seems to be trustworthy, NoM said, it is a way. “There is definitely a message that it sends,” said the secretary. “President Trump wants people to know if you are a violent criminal and you are illegally in this country, it will result in consequences.”
NOEM offered that detection is an effective strategy that is from three US letter agencies, other intelligence officials of the federal government and one of the many Latin American and South American countries gathered intelligence, which “indicates heavy, which promotes people to return home voluntarily, it has consequences.”
“They see the laws are being implemented in the United States,” NoM said. “They know that when they are illegally here and if they are detained, they will be removed. They see they can never get a chance to return to America. And they are voluntarily coming home.”
The DHS Secretary met Mexican President Claudia Shinbam in March. “A question that I asked by President Scanbom, when I was in Mexico,” Are you guess how many people can come back to Mexico, which we would not know about, “NoM said.
,[Sheinbaum] Said that 500,000 to 600,000 people have voluntarily returned to Mexico since President Trump remained in the post, “NoM said the Mexican President believes that his reluished citizens are afraid of losing a chance to return to America in a visa or work program.
It is a datapaoint that he meets many foreign leaders with him, including Ecuador President Daniel Noboa, who shared a 90 -minute lunch with the DHS secretary in Quito last Thursday. “I asked him the same question,” NoM remembered. “They do not have many illegal migrants as Mexico and Venezuela in the United States, but said they feel that their over 100,000 citizens have returned to Ecuador. And this is a large number.”
NOEM argued that his Ecuador equivalent is a thick estimate based on two factors – a strong Ecuadorian economy and a DHS Television campaign launched across Latin and South AmericaWarned potential migrants not to illegally enter the US or remain.
“He was very proud of the fact that he is doing better with his economy. So there are jobs,” NoM said. “But he said, you know, our advertisements are running in Ecuador. We are telling people that, if you have a family in the United States who are illegally, it is time to come home.”
Margaret Brainan and Camillo Montoya-Galvez contributed to this report.
