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DeSantis: ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ will be ‘ready for business’ when Trump visits
- On Tuesday July 1, President Donald Trump toured Florida's new detention center in the Everglades, known as 'Alligator Alcatraz,' during its official opening.
- Since the facility's announcement last week, DeSantis used emergency powers to seize land and rapidly build the detention center in about eight days.
- The facility features 1,000 beds, scalable to 3,000, with 400+ security personnel, 200+ cameras, and 28,000 feet of razor wire across 39 square miles.
- Following rapid construction, hundreds of protesters blocked U.S. 41, while environmental groups sued and tribal leaders condemned sacred land encroachment.
- Trump suggested the facility could serve as a national model, with DeSantis urging other states to follow, positioning Florida at the forefront of a broader immigration enforcement strategy.
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Trump tours immigration detention center in the Everglades
By KATE PAYNE Associated Press/Report for America TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The new immigration detention center at an isolated airstrip in the Florida Everglades that President Donald Trump visited on Tuesday was heralded by Republicans as a potential model for other states to aggressively ramp up detention and deportation efforts. Trump, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other officials toured the facility, which was built by…
President Trump visits "Alligator Alcatraz"
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) - Deep in Florida's swampy Everglades, President Donald Trump toured a brand-new detention facility built to house illegal immigrants. It's being called 'Alligator Alcatraz' and the Trump administration is highlighting it as part of their ongoing mass deportation effort. During his visit to the facility on Tuesday the president joked about the name of the new center. "It's known as Alligator Alcatraz, which is very appropri…
Trump, DeSantis planning to visit "Alligator Alcatraz"
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Monday that President Trump plans to visit a new immigration detention center in South Florida that state officials are calling "Alligator Alcatraz." The visit would come Tuesday. CBS News correspondent Shanelle Kaul has more.
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