USA's New Alligator Alcatraz

🐊 Alligator Alcatraz: America’s Most Controversial Detention Fortress In the heart of the Florida Everglades, where the air is thick with humidity and the swamps teem with alligators and pythons, a new chapter in U.S. immigration enforcement has begun. Nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz,” this newly unveiled detention facility is as symbolic as it is strategic—and it’s already igniting fierce debate across the country. 📍 What Is Alligator Alcatraz? “Alligator Alcatraz” is the informal name for a massive immigration detention centre located at the remote Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport , about 50 miles west of Miami. Once envisioned as a supersonic jetport, the site has now been transformed into a high-security compound designed to house up to 5,000 undocumented migrants awaiting deportation. The name is a nod to both the infamous island prison in San Francisco Bay and the Everglades’ natural predators—alligators and pythons—which serve as a “natural perimeter” to deter esc...