President Donald Trump set to visit 'Alligator Alcatraz' migrant detention facility on Tuesday
1 July 2025, 10:20 | Updated: 1 July 2025, 10:22
President Donald Trump will visit the 'Alligator Alcatraz' facility in the Florida Everglades on Tuesday.
By Rebecca Henrys
US President Donald Trump is expected to visit the new 'Alligator Alcatraz' migrant detention centre in Florida on Tuesday.
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The new facility will formally open today following its rapid construction by the administration of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
It has been built on a little used airstrip in the Florida Everglades that was seized by Gov. DeSantis using emergency powers and will be used to house up to 3,000 people.
President Trump is due to visit the site as the first detainees are set to arrive later today.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt described the facility as an 'efficient and low-cost way' to conduct the 'largest mass-deportation campaign in American history'.
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