Jim Beever spent much of his career reviewing large developments in the Collier County area, which is where the detention center is being built.

The president and local authorities boast that alligators and pythons will prevent escapes. Five people have died this year in the state while detained by ICE. The president and local authorities boast that alligators and pythons will prevent escapes.

The first group of immigrants are set to arrive at a new detention center deep in the Florida Everglades that officials have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”

President Trump toured a new immigration detention center in South Florida that state officials are calling "Alligator Alcatraz."

Land in the Everglades once designated to be a jetport, is now being turned into a detention center for migrants and being called Alligator Alcatraz.

As Republicans try to push through their big bill that would inject billions into President Trump’s deportation campaign, the president visited a new detention center in Florida. The facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” by local officials is located at an airport in the Florida Everglades and is set to hold up to 5,

A site known as the Jetport is now home to a growing migrant prison encampment capable of holding thousands of detainees.

Cuban reggaeton artist Leamsy La Figura, currently held on assault charges in Alligator Alcatraz, has spoken out against the facility.