A migrant detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz" was expected to open in Florida in 2025. Rating: True (About this rating?) Amid an immigration crackdown led by U.S. President Donald Trump's ...

President Donald Trump described "Alligator Alcatraz" as a place to detain people considered "some of the most vicious people on the planet." Other administration officials and Florida Republicans ...

President Trump will tour Alligator Alcatraz July 1. The facility is intended to become a 5,000-bed immigrant detention center. Work to turn the Miami-Dade Collier Training and Transportation Airport ...

On Aug. 29, 2025, several widely circulated posts on social media claimed that an "uprising" occurred at the South Florida Detention Facility – nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz" – the center U.S.

Florida has an estimated alligator population of 1.3 million, spread across all 67 counties. It's illegal to kill, injure, or capture alligators in Florida without a permit. The Statewide Nuisance ...