Trump to Open Florida ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Migrant Camp With 5,000 Beds

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Updated Jun 30, 2025, 07:44 PM

President Donald Trump is expected to travel to South Florida on Tuesday for the formal opening of “Alligator Alcatraz,” a new immigration detention center that state officials erected on the disused Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in the Everglades. He will be joined by Governor Ron DeSantis, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Representative Byron Donalds.

The remote site—surrounded by alligators, pythons and marshland—will initially operate from heavy-duty tents and trailers and is designed to hold, process and deport up to 5,000 non-citizens. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the location has “only one road leading in, and the only way out is a one-way flight,” adding that the unforgiving terrain acts as a natural security barrier.

Florida fast-tracked construction by invoking emergency powers and intends to staff the compound with state personnel, including National Guard members who could serve as on-site immigration judges. According to state budget documents and remarks by DeSantis, operating costs are estimated at about $245 per bed, or roughly $450 million annually, with most of the funding reimbursed through the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Shelter and Services Program—money previously used to house migrants in hotels.

The project has drawn sharp opposition. Environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit last week alleging the camp threatens the delicate Everglades ecosystem, and protesters lined U.S. Highway 41 over the weekend. Civil-rights advocates call the facility inhumane, while supporters within the Trump administration tout it as a low-cost model for the wider mass-deportation strategy now moving through Congress.

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BREAKING: Karoline Leavitt announced that Kristi Noem, Ron DeSantis and Byron Donalds will be at Alligator Alcatraz tomorrow for the opening Brendon Leslie: "She named dropped Byron Donalds...that was done on purpose."