Byron Donalds Explains How Florida Set ‘Blueprint For Other States’ On Border Security

Republican Florida Rep. Byron Donalds explained on Fox News Tuesday how Florida has set the “blueprint for other states” on how to deal with the border crisis.

Florida opened the “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center, designed to house up to 5,000 criminal illegal immigrants awaiting deportation. During an appearance on “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Donalds discussed how Homeland Security and Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his team made the detention center possible.

“So in Florida, when you have Homeland Security working with Governor DeSantis and their team to say let’s get some additional bedspace in Florida,” Donalds said. “Can you stand this up, and can we do this? One, they were able to get that done very, very quickly. That’s to the credit of the governor and his team. But it’s also a blueprint for other states.”

States like Louisiana, Donalds said, could replicate Florida’s approach by collaborating with Homeland Security to increase bedspace and infrastructure, ensuring they are equipped to handle illegal immigration more effectively.

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“Whether it’s Louisiana or any other state, you can do that too. Let’s get the bedspace that Homeland needs so that when we pass one big, beautiful bill, they get all of the money and the resources they need in order to create the logistical framework of deporting criminally illegal aliens and a lot of these aliens that Joe Biden let in over the last four years,” Donalds said.

Donalds also said President Donald Trump has been a leader securing the border.

“It’s really miraculous. Of course, this is the president first. He has led on this. He campaigned on what he was going to do, closing the border towns. Also, the team at the White House. He’s put together a great team,” Donalds said. “Everybody is focused on the mission. The entire cabinet is there, and the party stands behind them.” (RELATED: Detained Illegal Alien Tried To ‘Eat Himself’ During Deportation Flight, Kristi Noem Says)

Trump announced in May his plan to revive one of America’s most notorious prisons, Alcatraz, and expand it like never before. Trump called for the infamous island prison off the coast of San Francisco to be “rebuilt, enlarged, and reopened” to house the nation’s “most ruthless and violent offenders.”

In June, Florida’s Attorney General James Uthmeier proposed converting the abandoned airport into a detention center, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.” Trump traveled to Florida on Tuesday to visit the new detention center and also showed support for DeSantis’s proposal to appoint National Guardsmen as immigration judges to accelerate the court process at the new “Alligator Alcatraz.”

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