The Trump administration’s delivery of $608 million to Florida for immigrant detention centers could also complicate the state’s defense of its most controversial facility.
In a social media post Thursday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis applauded news that the Federal Emergency Management Agency was reimbursing the state for detention facilities including the one dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”
For DeSantis, the reimbursement decision amounted to both a substantive success and a repudiation of skeptics who questioned whether FEMA would pick up the costs of the state-built facilities.
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“We were right; media was wrong…” DeSantis declared on the social media site X, with a link to a Florida news station’s story about the federal reimbursement decision.
