Ron DeSantis

The thing about it is, I endorsed him.

Around 100 National Guard troops will be sent to the site about 37 miles from Miami to help provide security.

like the monoclonal antibodies thing on steroids

Clearly from a security perspective, if someone escapes, there’s a lot of alligators you’re going to have to contend (with).

Welcome to Alligator Alcatraz, I like that name by the way.

I think people are just trying to use the Everglades as a pretext just for the fact that they oppose immigration enforcement.

It’s as safe and secure as you can be.

We had a request from the federal government to do it, and so ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ it is.

When the president comes tomorrow, he's going to be able to see.

You literally drive them to 2,000 feet, put them on a plane, and then they’re gone. It’s very logistically simple.

We literally are doing what the voters who elected all of us have been demanding for many, many years.

People say there are training flights that go in there, but it’s a massive runway.

They ain't going anywhere once they're there, unless you want them to go somewhere.

If you don’t do that, you know you’re going to continue to have this problem of illegal immigration.

It's an effective way to increase the numbers of removals and deportations.

Clearly, from a security perspective, if someone escapes, you know, there's a lot of alligators. No one's going anywhere.

helps fulfill President Trump’s mission

This is going to be a force multiplier, and we are really happy to be working with the federal government to satisfy President Trump’s mandate.

This is going to be a force multiplier and we’re really happy to be working with the federal government to satisfy President Trump’s mandate.

We can land Air Force One right there.

We’ve got a massive runway right behind us where any of the federal assets … they want to fly these people back to the country.

You know, we’ve got across this country about 750,000 illegals that have already been ordered to be removed by an immigration judge.

We’ll probably also do something similar up at Camp Blanding, which is where our National Guard headquarters train there.

It’ll be a force multiplier. It’ll help DHS. It will help our state and local law enforcement with relieving some burden on resources.

So, we’ll have a formal announcement on both of those very, very quickly.