Trump Tours ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center
Trump also endorsed a proposal by Florida Gov. DeSantis to deputize members of the Florida National Guard as immigration judges.
Last week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis officially opened the gates to the state’s latest innovation in immigration enforcement: “Alligator Alcatraz.” It’s a no-frills detention center for illegal immigrants amid the Everglades, which is a sounder option for enhanced border protection than paying for luxury hotels on the taxpayer dime.
This week, President Donald Trump toured the facility, located at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in Ochopee. The facility is designed to detain, process, and deport undocumented migrants. It is situated in a remote, swampy area surrounded by “Wild America’s” alligators and pythons, thus providing “natural security”.
Trump raved about the facility’s quick construction as he scanned rows of dozens of empty bunk beds enclosed in cages and warned about the threatening conditions surrounding the facility.
“I looked outside and that’s not a place I want to go hiking anytime soon,” Trump said at a roundtable event after his tour. “We’re surrounded by miles of treacherous swampland and the only way out is really deportation.”
The complex in southern Florida at the Dade Collier Training and Transition Airport is estimated to cost $450 million annually and could house some 5,000 people, officials estimate.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has said he will send 100 National Guard troops there and that people could start arriving to the facility as soon as Wednesday.
Trump was joined by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and as well as DeSantis. The vision of being encamped in the swamp with Florida’s famous heat and humidity is part of the incentive package to self-deport.
In a roundtable alongside Mr. Trump, Noem told people who are in the country illegally and who may be watching on TV that they can still “self-deport” and get the chance to return to the United States legally in the future.
“If you don’t, you may end up here,” Noem said. “And you may end up here and being processed, deported out of this country, and never get the chance to come back.”
DeSantis echoed Noem’s message. “Why would you want to come through ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ if you can just go home on your own?” DeSantis said. ” I think a lot of people are going to make that decision.”
Trump also endorsed a proposal by DeSantis to deputize members of the Florida National Guard as immigration judges in an effort to expedite deportations at the new state-run immigration detention center.
“He didn’t even have to ask me. He has my approval,” Trump said during a roundtable discussion at the immigration detention center in the Everglades.
DeSantis on Monday said having the National Guard work as immigration judges on site at the detention center could fast-track deportations.
On Tuesday, DeSantis said his goal was to cut through “bureaucracy.”
Unlike federal judges, who work for the judicial branch and are independent of the president, immigration judges work under the direction of the U.S. attorney general.
President Trump & Gov. DeSantis confirm Florida will deputize National Guardsmen as immigration judges
Instead of waiting 3 years for a deportation decision, it will be made in less than 3 days at Alligator Alcatraz
Every Red state needs to follow suit pic.twitter.com/frOgCmPGzT
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) July 1, 2025
Of course, no Trump policy…on any issue…would be complete without the weeping and complaining of the usual suspects.
A coalition of environmental groups on Friday sued over the Trump administration’s plans to build a detention center in the Everglades that critics have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”
The suit seeks to block the Trump administration from building the new facility on a Florida airfield, the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport (TNT) near Big Cypress National Preserve.
“This massive detention center will blight one of the most iconic ecosystems in the world,” said Elise Bennett, Florida and Caribbean director at the Center for Biological Diversity, in a statement.
Hopefully all Trump’s plans to disincentivize illegal immigrations will prove successful, and court-orders will not stop innovative approaches. But what ever the outcome, the memes have been glorious.
Welcome to Alligator Alcatraz. 🐊 pic.twitter.com/njdthwe51I
— Liberty Pill Memes (@LibertyPillMeme) July 1, 2025
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What they are missing are t-shirts, Need some T’s,
I’m wrong again (sigh)
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I am really proud every time that my President wears a baseball cap, especially in the Oval Office in the White House, or when visiting foreign rulers. It adds so much to to the dignity of the office, But for the full effect, he should wear it backwards.
Hey Junior.
Speaking of wearing hats… you should wear a rubber on your head.
I mean, hell… if you’re going to continue being a dick, you might as well dress the part.
Or a tasteful track suit, like your hero Zelenskyyyyyy.
Yes, I’d much rather they wear blue jeans and kick their feet up on The Resolute Desk or get a hummer in the Oval Office.
Jerk-off Retard returns to provide his infantile, dim-witted and idiotic musings on presidential fashion and decorum.
Note that this moron didn’t have any opprobrium to offer when vile narcissist-incompetent-dunce, Obama, placed his legs and dirty shoes upon the Oval Office desk, looking like a shiftless office drone on his cigarette break.
I like that Trump isn’t obsessed with all the unwritten rules. He’s down to earth. He’s not from the swamp.
Poor JR, both toothless and classless
Terrible situation you are in
Making them all immigration judges is long overdue
Unfortunately it’s only the JAG officers who are going to be allowed to be immigration judges.
I bet no vicious swamp bunnies were stupid enough to attack the Trump tour group.
Shout out to mah man, Jimmeh!
Joe Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas should be ashamed for creating this costly, divisive, and illegal immigration crisis in the country. Shame on them.
Better yet,
Prison time
Confiscation of all wealth
The sudden interest in protesting the existing site shows it has nothing to do with the environment and everything to do with Trump and illegal aliens.
Of course it has everything to do with the environment! If you are from Florida, you know that you are not supposed to feed the gators!
Can’t wait until the protesters hire swamp boats to take them to the site to protest.
“…Where a man can hide and never be found,
and have no fear of the bayin’ hound.
But he’s better keep movin’ and don’t stand still,
if the skeeters don’t get him then the ‘gators will.”
djt for the win!!!
Now let’s get Alaska in on this with an Igloo Incarceration or maybe Grizzly Gulags? AZ could host the Desert Dungeon and the Sand Slammer. Any rural State could have a Country Calaboose or Peckerwood Pokey.
In Alaska, there is one special place. Until Princess Tours showed up and the “town” built slips for Anchorage boat owners, the IN place to put them would have been Whittier. Built solely as a warm water port during WWII, it has only 10 days of sunshine per year so the Japs couldn’t bomb it. Everyone lives in one… ONE…1… building. There is only a one lane railroad/car tunnel linking Whittier to the rest of South Central. They even considered building a prison there but that would have been the same as solitary confinement. The classic phrase is…”It’s always Shi…tier in Whittier.”.
Maybe the Aleutian Islands though I was thinking more like an ICE Station Zero in the Arctic Circle. (pun intended) We could build a tent city or Q huts and ship any ‘resistance oriented’ federal employees up there as part of a Federal interagency Task Force to count snowflakes. Letting them count illegal alien detainees gives them another outlet to occupy their time.
Isn’t that the town with an abandoned military office building next to the residential building? Sounds like we already have a place to put them there.
McGruff the crime fighting dog has been replaced by a creature with all bite and no bark.
Can’t wait until the protesters hire swamp boats to take them to the site to protest. Those giant fans can really mess up a purple hairdo.
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