Workers have started building a migrant detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” deep in Florida’s Everglades. The project, set at an old airstrip called Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, should open by early July 2025. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier named the facility and promotes it as a smart choice because the surrounding wildlife makes escape nearly impossible. “You don’t need to invest that much in the perimeter. If people get out, there’s not much waiting for them other than alligators and pythons,” Uthmeier said in a video. The detention center supports the Trump administration’s push to increase deportations. Homeland Security … Continue reading Florida’s $450M ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Uses Wildlife as Guards for 5,000 Migrants in Sensitive Everglades