Illegal immigrants held at a Florida detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” have been moved due to the start of hurricane season, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Thursday.
In an email to an Epoch Times, the spokesperson said that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Florida officials “have moved illegal aliens from the soft sided facility.”
“For the safety of the illegal alien detainees, we transferred them to other facilities,” the statement said.
The spokesperson did not elaborate on how many illegal immigrants were transferred from the South Florida Detention Center, located at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport inside Big Cypress National Preserve in Ochopee, Florida. The spokesperson also did not elaborate on where the illegal immigrants were transferred to….