Alligator Alcatraz is a warning to illegal immigrants in the US: Leave now or end up here
Julio Rosas
July 02, 2025
The Florida-run site is expected to hold up to 3,000 detainees.
OCHOPEE, Fla. — The mosquitoes were out in full force just before the sun rose on Tuesday in the Everglades. The shoulders of the two-lane road were packed with cars of media members doing live shots outside the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, now known as Alligator Alcatraz.
Alligator Alcatraz has made waves in Florida and across the nation because within eight days, Republican Governor Ron DeSantis' administration worked with the Department of Homeland Security to build a temporary holding facility at the remote airport. While the site has many advantages, a primary deterrent from escape attempts or interference from open-border radicals are the state's famous swamps and the wildlife that resides in them.
'Voters in those states will go to their elected officials, "Hey, why aren't you helping the president like Florida's doing?"'
In attendance at Tuesday's grand opening of the facility were President Donald Trump, DeSantis, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, and numerous state and federal officials. They presented a unified front to say: This holding site is operational, and if illegal aliens do not want to be held there, they can self-deport.
"They don’t have to come here. If they self-deport and go home, they can come back legally," Noem explained. "But if you wait and we bring you to this facility, you don’t ever get to come back to America. You don’t get the chance to come back and be an American again."
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