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‘The View’ Co-Host Makes Head-Scratching Connection Between Alligator Alcatraz And Liberal Policy

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“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin railed about Americans complaining about affordable housing on Friday since Alligator Alcatraz was built “in just eight days.”

Hostin said that she never wants to hear about Americans not being housed because Alligator Alcatraz was built so quickly by President Donald Trump’s administration, which is used to temporarily house illegal immigrant criminals as they await deportation. She did not explain how enacting policies to build low-income housing is in any way comparable to convicted illegal immigrant criminals awaiting their deportations.

“I don’t want to hear anything ever in this country again about not being able to house people [and] no affordable housing because they put this thing up in 8 days,” Hostin said. “8 days, so where there is a will, there is a way.”

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Alligator Alcatraz, which is located in the Florida Everglades, is being used to house criminals with heinous criminal records and convictions. Lazaro Rodriguez Santana, a Cuban national, was convicted in Texas of sexual assault and failure to register as a sex offender, Fox News first reported. Jose Fortin, a Honduran national convicted of second-degree murder, is also awaiting deportation at the new facility.

On the other hand, affordable housing policies aim to provide reasonably priced permanent housing to lower income individuals and families and assist with rent, which has no connection to illegal immigration or deportation. In California, where affordable housing policies have been implemented, wealthier neighborhoods have witnessed higher rental costs and slow housing buildout because of mandates requiring low-income housing units to be built.

The state of Florida is primarily covering the cost of Alligator Alcatraz, which will cost an estimated $450 million annually to operate, and will seek reimbursement through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The newly opened facility is expected to house up to 5,000 beds for the soon-to-be deportees. Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said it is a necessary way to ease the burdens of jails and local law enforcement agencies in the state.

Secretary of Interior Doug Burgum and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Scott Turner are currently seeking to identify federally owned land “suitable for residential use” in order to provide more available and affordable housing. This policy intends to fulfill President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at “defeating the cost-of-living crisis.”