Relying on an emergency order issued in January 2023 in response to a flood of Cuban and Haitian migrants arriving by boat in the Florida Keys, DeSantis is seizing county land, mobilizing a team of private companies to build a facility big enough to hold 3,000 detained immigrants and deploying Florida National Guard troops to secure the site. The rush of migrant arrivals ended long ago, but the order, which cites then-President Joe Biden’s “inadequate” response to immigration, has been repeatedly extended.
“This is not our first rodeo,” DeSantis told Fox News on Friday while touring an airfield owned by Miami-Dade County that has quickly been turned into a small grid of heavy-duty tents and trailers.
I imagine they’ll put a sign in the entrance of this shantytown with the motto “Work will set you free”.
Because the difference from prison and a concentration camp is due process. This development is a mass internment camp designed for control and oppression of people bypassing due process, basic rights and little to no oversight.
