Lawmaker says Alligator Alcatraz is an ‘internment camp’ after joint GOP-Dem visit: ‘Packed into cages’ - Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who represents Florida's 25th congressional district, said

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

Columnist Steve Bousquet reports on the DeSantis administration’s elaborate efforts to restrict public access to the hastily built immigration detention camp known as “Alligator

Dubbed East Coast version of famed prison, ... Some stats about Alligator Alcatraz, Florida’s ICE detention center, as of Tuesday, July 1, 2025, or “opening day”:

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.

The joke's on anyone who is disturbed enough to want a tour of Florida's new horror show. The Trump administration recently launched “ Alligator Alcatraz, ” a migrant detention center based in Florida whose name references the region’s native population of scaly reptilians.

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

Fantasizing about Florida alligators eating immigrants is old racism repackaged in a new Alligator Alcatraz detention camp.