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Everglades Advocates Respond to Press Conference With DeSantis, Federal Officials at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ 43%
By Newswire editor94%
6/25/2026, 8:30:28 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Ad Hominem, Indoctrination, and Fundamental Attribution Error, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 33.9% saturation with 155 hits. Analysis detected 560 faulty-reasoning hits from 457 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 46.6% and a BS Rank of 43% (12,544 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 57.30% of the article peer group.
Florida Gov.
DeSantis, White House Border Czar Tom Homan and Florida State Board of Immigration Enforcement Executive Director Anthony Coker said today at a news conference that they have zero detainees at the ICE detention center in Big Cypress National Preserve.
The groups suing to enforce environmental laws at the year-old facility — which underwent zero environment review — issued the following statements:
“This outrageously expensive internment camp inflicted documented harm on the Everglades, and Gov.
DeSantis and Attorney General Uthmeier are trying to sweep it under the rug.
We won’t allow it.
The public deserves a full, transparent assessment of the extent of the damage at ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’
We are poised to return to court to defend the Everglades and demand full remediation of the harm,” said Eve Samples, executive director of Friends of the Everglades.
“Overwhelming opposition has forced Trump and DeSantis to scamper away from Alligator Alcatraz with their tails between their legs,” said Elise Bennett, Florida and Caribbean director and an attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity.
“Now we’ll make sure they clean up their mess and work to protect the entire site so a twisted boondoggle like this one never again darkens the doorstep of Big Cypress.”
“The governor’s press conference confirmed the theory of our case.
This facility was coordinated between the state and the Department of Homeland Security behind closed doors, built without public scrutiny, and operated in secrecy,” said Paul J.
Schwiep of Coffey Burlington and counsel for Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity.
“Now the administration believes it can quietly walk away and leave its mess for others to clean up.
The law will not allow them to escape accountability.
We will ask the courts to ensure that the environmental damage is fully addressed, that the site is restored, and that no future administration can repeat this mistake.”
“If there’s one thing we’ve learned over the past year, it’s that state and federal officials say one thing to the public and another thing in court.
We intend to hold their feet to the fire in a court of law,” said Tania Galloni, managing attorney for Earthjustice’s Florida regional office.
“Let’s wait and see what they tell the court under oath,” said Scott Hiaasen of Coffey Burlington.
Background
Friends of the Everglades, represented by Earthjustice and Coffey Burlington attorneys Paul Schwiep and Scott Hiaasen, along with the Center for Biological Diversity, sued in June 2025 to enforce a law that requires review of environmental impacts under the National Environmental Policy Act before major federal projects are approved.
The Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida joined the lawsuit to protect tribal rights.
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