UPDATE 11:51 a.m.:
President Trump is currently speaking at a roundtable at the newly built detention center in Ochopee.
He landed around 10 a.m. and took a tour of the facility with Gov. Ron DeSantis, US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and Executive Director for the Florida Division of Emergency Management Kevin Guthrie.
Congressman Byron Donalds and Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier are also in attendance.
The first detainee is expected to be at the facility on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, outside the gates, people against the facility are protesting, many telling Fox 4 it will impact the Everglades.
ORIGINAL STORY:
President Donald Trump is scheduled to arrive in Ochopee by 10 a.m. on Tuesday to tour Florida’s newest migrant detention facility — dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”
Our team has been stationed outside of the center all morning to show you what kind of support and dissent the facility is gaining.
The president is scheduled to tour the facility and then hold a roundtable with local leaders around 11 a.m.
Watch our newscast live, here.
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The Everglades Jetport, proposed in the 1960s, was intended to be the largest airport in the world — about five times the size of New York’s JFK. The project was halted in the 1970s due to environmental and logistical concerns, and only one airstrip was ever constructed, which still stands today.
