{"id":296830,"date":"2025-07-27T21:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T21:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/296830\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T21:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T21:17:10","slug":"new-aerial-footage-shows-alligator-alcatraz-immigration-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/296830\/","title":{"rendered":"New aerial footage shows \u2018Alligator Alcatraz\u2019 immigration center"},"content":{"rendered":"

New aerial footage is showing another view of the high-security immigration detention center in Florida’s Everglades coined “Alligator Alcatraz<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Under Gov. Ron DeSantis<\/a>‘ directive, the facility opened on an airstrip earlier this month for thousands of undocumented immigrants while also serving as a “transitional shelter for migrants.” The tent city<\/a> was set up at Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport located around 45 miles west of Miami and is only accessible through a two-lane highway, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n

Video shows the facility filled with rows of white tents, RVs and portable buildings all surrounded by a vast wetland. Officials have described the center as “escape-proof” due to its terrain. The Everglades is home to alligators, crocodiles, various snakes and the Florida panther, according the National Park Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Florida\u2019s Division of Emergency Management oversees the site in coordination with federal agencies including ICE<\/a>, Reuters reported. The state estimates the facility would cost more than $450 million annually to operate.<\/p>\n

See new angle of Florida\u2019s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ facility\"play\"<\/p>\n

See aerial video from above the Alligator Alcatraz detention center<\/p>\n

Alligator Alcatraz is a new high-security immigration detention center in the Florida’s Everglades.<\/p>\n

Trump says its ‘might be as good as the real Alcatraz’<\/p>\n

After touring the facility on July 1, President Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0praised Florida officials for picking the isolated wilderness spot, adding “I think it’s great government what we’ve done.”<\/p>\n

“They did this in less than a week,” Trump said, according to\u00a0Reuters<\/a>. “You look at it and it’s incredible. \u2026 It might be as good as the real Alcatraz. Well, that’s a spooky one, too. That’s a tough site.”<\/p>\n

Trump added that the center is “not a place I want to go hiking anytime soon” and that “the only way out is really deportation.”<\/p>\n

The new facility comes as immigration advocates continue to express concerns over capacity at state and national detention centers amid Trump Administration’s increased pace of immigrant apprehensions and removals<\/a> from the United States.<\/p>\n

Critics have condemned the new detention facility<\/a> for holding people without a criminal record and for conditions inside. The New York Times reported earlier this month that only about\u00a060% of the detainees have criminal convictions<\/a> and that 900 men are sleeping in tents.<\/p>\n

Others have voiced concerns over the facility’s impact over the Everglade’s itself, home to 36 threatened or endangered species, according to the National Park Service.<\/p>\n

Contributing: Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY and Antonio Fins, Palm Beach Post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New aerial footage is showing another view of the high-security immigration detention center in Florida’s Everglades coined “Alligator…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[7480,5492,1322,81317,5483,32,89932,5491,5498,577,40,11672,6096,20252,5775,5785,9641,12354,1687,285,81316,81318,11760,11771,14835,10022,17775,11761,5598,110003,15822,5776,1757,5181,49,978,659,1236,9647,11729],"class_list":{"0":"post-296830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-advocacy","9":"tag-branch","10":"tag-company","11":"tag-desantis","12":"tag-donald","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-everglades","15":"tag-executive","16":"tag-executive-branch","17":"tag-florida","18":"tag-immigration","19":"tag-issues","20":"tag-national","21":"tag-national-park-service","22":"tag-network","23":"tag-network-trending","24":"tag-new","25":"tag-new-york-times-company","26":"tag-park","27":"tag-politics","28":"tag-ron","29":"tag-ron-desantis","30":"tag-sensitive","31":"tag-sensitive-subjects","32":"tag-service","33":"tag-social","34":"tag-social-issues-u0026-advocacy","35":"tag-subjects","36":"tag-the","37":"tag-the-everglades","38":"tag-times","39":"tag-trending","40":"tag-trump","41":"tag-u0026","42":"tag-united-states","43":"tag-us","44":"tag-usa","45":"tag-visa","46":"tag-visa-u0026-immigration","47":"tag-york"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}