Alligator Alcatraz[2] is an immigration detention facility erected at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport inside Big Cypress National Preserve in Ochopee, Florida, United States. [2] Announced in June 2025 by the Attorney General of Forida, James Uthmeier, and championed by the Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, it is located in the Everglades west of Miami, …

Jul 12, 2025 · How many inmates at Florida's Alligator Alcatraz? How many people in a cell? Where do they eat? Who works there? Is there air conditioning? Showers?

Jun 25, 2025 · Florida officials are racing ahead with the construction of what they’ve dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” to help carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda, working to build a ...

Jun 27, 2025 · Alligator Alcatraz location map in South Florida Alligator Alcatraz is located in a remote region in South Florida, which includes the Florida Everglades and Big Cypress Wildlife Management Area.

Jun 24, 2025 · Florida's attorney general says the migrant detention facility is on track to open in early July, at a little-used airfield in the Everglades. Environmental activists hope they can stop the project.

Jul 1, 2025 · The first photos of "Alligator Alcatraz" give a bleak inside look at the new migrant center deep in the Florida Everglades -- as authorities prepare to stash up to 5,000 detainees in wire cages there.

Jul 1, 2025 · ‘Alligator Alcatraz’: What to know about Florida’s new controversial migrant detention facility

Jun 24, 2025 · Florida this week started construction on a migrant detention facility the state is billing as “efficient” and “low-cost” – because Mother Nature will provide much of the security.

Jul 1, 2025 · Trump toured Florida’s immigration detention center in the Everglades. Here’s what to know President Donald Trump says migrants would need to know “how to run away from an alligator” to flee the new detention center he’s visiting in a remote area of the Florida Everglades.

Jul 3, 2025 · The first group of immigrants has arrived at a new detention center deep in the Florida Everglades that officials have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” a spokesperson for Republican state Attorney ...