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Hi there, I'm Katrina Perry.
Welcome to The President's Path on the Global Story Feed.
This week I'm speaking to my fellow chief presenter here in Washington DC,
Sumi Somaskanda, and the BBC's senior reporter, Bernd Boosman.
So we should just explain that Alligator Alcatraz is the name for this new migrant detention facility that's been opened up just this past week in Florida.
And it's meant to be something of a model for further detention facilities for undocumented migrants who are detained and then set for deportation.
Bernie, I'm curious, I mean, what was it like walking through that facility with the president?
Just what was the feel?
Because it was built so quickly.
Yeah, it was built in just six days.
And, you know, it's clean and it's air conditioned, but it is very, very Spartan.
You know, at one point, the president walked with us behind him,
walked through kind of a housing tent that they're going to use to put the migrants.
And it's essentially cages,
just various blocks of cages with bunk beds inside them and very little else.
And, you know,
I think the president and the administration and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis that was there as well,
they're very.
proud of that because they see kind of the harshness of it as almost the point.