{"id":312724,"date":"2026-06-19T04:56:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/312724\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T04:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T04:56:19","slug":"ask-ice-whats-changed-florida-emergency-director-reacts-to-alligator-alcatraz-relocations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/312724\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ask ICE what\u2019s changed\u2019: Florida emergency director reacts to \u2018Alligator Alcatraz\u2019 relocations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NORTH MIAMI, Fla. \u2014 Florida Division of Emergency Management Director Kevin Guthrie commented Thursday on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security\u2019s decision to move all detainees from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/topic\/Alligator_Alcatraz\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/topic\/Alligator_Alcatraz\/\">\u201dAlligator Alcatraz\u201d<\/a>, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/06\/16\/all-detainees-moved-out-of-alligator-alcatraz\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/06\/16\/all-detainees-moved-out-of-alligator-alcatraz\/\">hurricane concerns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/06\/18\/preguntenle-a-ice-que-ha-cambiado-director-de-emergencias-de-florida-reacciona-a-traslados-desde-alligator-alcatraz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/06\/18\/preguntenle-a-ice-que-ha-cambiado-director-de-emergencias-de-florida-reacciona-a-traslados-desde-alligator-alcatraz\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Guthrie was in North Miami for a hurricane preparedness roundtable at Florida International University\u2019s Biscayne Bay campus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The transfer comes despite Guthrie and other officials previously stating the immigration detention facility could survive a weak storm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cSo you would need to ask ICE what\u2019s changed,\u201d Guthrie said. \u201cAt the end of the day, the governor has always said that the immigration facility is temporary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He added, \u201cIt was always designed to be temporary. ICE has made a decision. They came out with that statement. I did not see that statement prior to it hitting the media.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Guthrie maintained that the structures on the site are still sturdy enough to survive a storm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe structures themselves, the I beam structures, the soft-sided structures can withstand up to 74 mile-an-hour winds, that is a tropical storm, (Category 1) hurricane,\u201d Guthrie said. \u201cThere was never ever an intent to leave individuals at that facility, even in a tropical storm. We were going to evacuate, we had evacuation plans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He previously said that the facility could handle a Category 2 storm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Guthrie added that the site will stay as it is for now and could still receive detainees again in the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cAt this point in time, we have not been told to stand down, so we are still in a posture to receive detainees again, if that\u2019s what the Department of Homeland Security wants to do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The makeshift detention center, deep in the Everglades, was constructed quickly last summer and has received sharp criticism from several environmental groups who later filed a lawsuit arguing for its closure. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sky 10 flew over the facility earlier this week, showing structures are still in place but not as busy as they\u2019ve been in the past.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">So far, neither Guthrie nor DHS have commented on exactly where those detainees from Alligator Alcatraz have been transferred.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTH MIAMI, Fla. \u2014 Florida Division of Emergency Management Director Kevin Guthrie commented Thursday on the U.S. Department&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-312724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}