Stark first photos from inside ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ reveal bleak digs for up to 5,000 migrants

nypost.com ^ | July 1, 2025 | By Anthony Blair

[V_TWIN]

The first photos of “Alligator Alcatraz” give a bleak inside look at the new migrant center deep in the Florida Everglades — as authorities prepare to stash up to 5,000 detainees in wire cages there.

Video taken during a tour by President Trump on Tuesday revealed rows upon rows of empty industrial metal bunk beds enclosed in hastily constructed cages made up of chain fences.

“[President] Biden wanted me in here, that son of a b—h,” President Trump said jokingly Tuesday as he was shown around the vast secure facility hidden within the subtropical wetlands of South Florida teeming with alligators, crocodiles and pythons.

[Sacajaweau]

That's in the lounge...And you can bet there is such an accommodation..and there's a big yard...They can put in a soccer field, a tennis court, a baseball diamond...

I'm sure it's at least a 54". Who gets the remote is by lottery.

[V_TWIN]

“Not one of those hats is on backwards”

Ain’t it refreshing?

That’s how you can tell a White boy created the meme. 😁

[left that other site]

Oh My Goodness! I lived near the Sawgrass in Florida for 16 YEARS. That was perfect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jjrkvoMHA8

[suthener]

“Looks similar to bunk arrangements on an Aircraft Carrier.”

I was on a supply ship. This actually looks a little more comfortable. Only two bunks instead of 3, room to move around. Yeah, it’s better than where I lived for 4 years.

[airborne]

The place has A/C! Much better than the fenced in gravel that Biden had illegals sitting in!

[rlmorel]

I only "hot-bunked" once during my enlistment, and got a kick in the ribs for it!

Once, in Naples, we had gone ashore, but due to weather, they could not bring us back to the ship in the launches. So, there were hundreds of sailors standing in the pouring rain on Fleet Landing with nowhere to go, most drunk on that nasty Peroni beer, and things got out of hand. Fights started breaking out, one guy held a bunch of Shore Patrol guys at bay with a stanchion he was swinging around, and SgtM Douglass waded right in, took the guy down, and turned to the raucous crowd of sailors and screamed "YOU MEN SHUT UP" and it got quiet enough to hear a pin drop.

We had seen Fleet Landing was closed with all those guys there, and went to the "Jolly Hotel" which dominated the Naples skyline at that time. Two of the guys in our group paid for the room, and a few more of us snuck in without paying to spend the night. We weren't even there an hour and a knock on the door came. Those of us who weren't supposed to be there clambered under the beds, but they came right in and pulled us out (like they knew we were there all along) and kicked all of us out of the hotel.

So, back to Fleet landing we went, in the pouring rain where we saw all that commotion and riot above.

Anyway, they had to do something with all these drenched sailors, so they began taking groups of us and putting us on Navy ships that were tied up to spend the night there.

This was all new to me. They had never done anything like this before. I found myself going aboard the USS Albany, a very strange looking vessel, and they led me to a bunk (the bottom one in a stack of three) and told me I could sleep there. I climbed in, and immediately fell asleep.

In the early morning, I felt a sharp kick in my side, and an angry sailor was growling at me "Get the **** out of my rack!" I mumbled "They just put me here, I didn't know-sorry..." and got up. Fortunately, they served us breakfast, so I had my breakfast on the USS Albany, and when I went back to Fleet Landing, they were running boats, and they took me back to the JFK.

I couldn't blame that guy for kicking me. I wondered what it would have been like for me if I had come back and found some damp, smelly sailor sleeping in my rack!

[MayflowerMadam]

I think I remember when that lady was feeding Elvis the gator. (Crazy.)

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

The fact is no one has to be placed there. If they leave now, on their own, self-deport, they can control their future.

[rlmorel]

LOL, didn’t know you were an Airedale! Yes...I was right underneath the arrestor cables, and I could hear the planes coming in even before they hit the deck!

I did a five-day detachment aboard the USS FDR back in the mid-late Seventies, and boy, she was in rough shape then. I can roughly imagine how nasty it was for you, as I spent time on the USS Lexington, which was the worst time I spent on a vessel.

Besides being really hot (I don’t think it was 100 degrees, but it easily could have been 85-90 degrees) we were getting bunker oil fumes into the compartment, and it made me feel sick. You could taste in in your saliva, when you ate food...ugh. It was like having a nasty fever for a week, complete with inability to sleep and unsettled bad dreams when you could.

When I heard they scrapped the Lexington, I breathed a sigh of relief for her crew!

[Thank You Rush]

“”declare AA as Mexican soil””

????

[albie]

“Bleak” if you’re comparing it to 4 and 5 star hotels in NYC where lots of these illegals were living.

[Carriage Hill]

It far nicer than the CRIMINAL, ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS deserve.

[Carriage Hill]

It far nicer than the CRIMINAL, ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS deserve.

[mware]

Looks about like a Marine Corp recruit barracks to me.

[joe fonebone]

Looks as good as or better than the barracks I went to boot camp in.....

[joe fonebone]

No..
An aircraft carrier is 3 bunks high...
Ask me how I know...

[joe fonebone]

I was in a squadron..
JFK, CV67 and FID, CV59...

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"The deterence value is priceless. Not to mention that citizenry of every other country on the planet with open borders thanks to their Deep State is watching Trump do this..."

^^THIS^^

[Fireone]

Very well done, I love it!!

[libertylover]

give a bleak inside look at the new migrant center deep in the Florida Everglades

Not that bleak; it has air-conditioning while millions of legal Americans don't have air-conditioning.