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‘Alligator Alcatraz' signs go up outside migrant detention center in Everglades
6 South Florida ^ | 3 Jul, 2025 | Yvette Lewis, Briana Trujillo

Posted on 07/03/2025 10:14:31 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Overnight, workers replaced the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport sign with one that reads "Alligator Alcatraz." While on the road that turns into the facility, a new sign also bears the name.

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In the overnight hours between Wednesday and Thursday, vans could be seen coming in and out of the (apparently) newly-christened "Alligator Alcatraz," the migrant detention facility deep in the Everglades.

Though NBC6 has not received official confirmation about the name of the facility or arrival of detainees—which had been expected on Wednesday, a day after the opening of the detention center—our cameras caught several vans with government license plates driving in and out of the area.

The vehicles were similar to the ones U.S. Customer and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) has previously used to transport migrants.

Food trucks and other vehicles were also seen entering the facility, which is expected to be able to hold around 3,000 detainees upon completion, late Wednesday.

And overnight, workers replaced the Dade Collier Training and Transition Airport sign with one that reads "Alligator Alcatraz." While on the road that turns into the facility, a new sign also bears the name.

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump visited the facility along with Gov. Ron DeSantis and other officials.

The president said the moniker "Alligator Alcatraz" is “very appropriate because I looked outside and that’s not a place I want to go hiking anytime soon.”

“The only way out, really, is deportation,” Trump added.

The White House has delighted in the area’s remoteness — about 50 miles (80 kilometers) west of Miami — and the fact that it is teeming with pythons and alligators. It hopes to convey a message to detainees and the rest of the world that repercussions will be severe if the immigration laws of the United States are not followed.

The center was built in eight days over 10 miles (16 kilometers) of Everglades. It features more than 200 security cameras, 28,000-plus feet (8,500 meters) of barbed wire and 400 security personnel.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: biden; illegalinvasion
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To: MtnClimber; lightman; Navy Patriot

“Alligator Alcatraz” is the shame of America!


21 posted on 07/03/2025 10:39:57 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: MtnClimber

‘Alligator Alcatraz’ signs go up outside migrant detention center in Everglades!

https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/alligator-alcatraz-signs-go-up-outside-migrant-detention-center-in-everglades/3651022/


22 posted on 07/03/2025 10:40:18 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Drones haves changed fighting wars/with Navy/Army top water or below and anything that flies)
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To: MtnClimber
Though NBC6 has not received official confirmation about the name of the facility or arrival of detainees

Then we should give them an official name: One of the murder/rape victims of these illegal monsters. Then keep the "Alligator Alcatraz" moniker on the signs.

23 posted on 07/03/2025 10:41:37 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: laplata
{ENTERING ALL THEY CAN EAT AREA}

Excellent!

maybe {Bottom of the Food Chain a Head} ?

24 posted on 07/03/2025 10:42:13 AM PDT by null and void (Democrats: fake news, fake presidents, fake beliefs, fake policies, fake protesters & fake voters!)
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To: null and void

Lol That works, too.


25 posted on 07/03/2025 10:45:47 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Red Badger

Very cool!


26 posted on 07/03/2025 10:46:35 AM PDT by Avalon Memories ( I voted Trump-Vance on 1st day of NC early voting. Go Trump-Vance!)
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To: Honorary Serb

“Alligator Alcatraz” is the shame of America!
Wrong!
Fail!
Booooo!

Permitting this nation to be invaded through open borders “...is the shame of America!”


27 posted on 07/03/2025 10:52:18 AM PDT by Z28.310 (does not comply well with others)
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To: MtnClimber
How about a screen cap?


28 posted on 07/03/2025 10:57:02 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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To: Honorary Serb
Here's another good sign you might like:


29 posted on 07/03/2025 10:57:22 AM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back)
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To: Billthedrill
"Nobody cares about the pythons. The alligators have a better agent."

Ask this alligator in the video if he cares about pythons:

Reality of the Everglades

30 posted on 07/03/2025 10:59:03 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: MtnClimber
Trump sparks a domestic labor renaissance! Native-born workers surge to a record high (+1.5M) while foreign-born workers decline (-1.0M). T

Image

31 posted on 07/03/2025 11:01:16 AM PDT by CFW
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To: MtnClimber; All
I just got a text message that the NRCC is now offering shirts in exchange for a donation! Alligator Alcatraz Campaign

'ICE with a bite" -- that's sure to get the Democrat bed wetters wetting their beds.


32 posted on 07/03/2025 11:10:01 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

The leftists will fill their colostomy bags if they see that shirt.


33 posted on 07/03/2025 11:16:11 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: mass55th

Dinner for Days!


34 posted on 07/03/2025 11:16:50 AM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: Z28.310

Yeah, but we don’t have to go Nazi!


35 posted on 07/03/2025 11:35:11 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: MtnClimber

And a few panthers...don’t forget about the panthers.


36 posted on 07/03/2025 11:39:45 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: null and void

So now the gators have to decide what flavor they want for supper. Mexican? chinese? ???????????


37 posted on 07/03/2025 11:42:01 AM PDT by oldasrocks
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To: quantim

There was a fatal bear attack on a man and his dog a few weeks ago near the Everglades. But the mosquitoes (the Florida State Bird) would be the worst. Escapees would come out looking like a raisin.


38 posted on 07/03/2025 11:44:11 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

The original Alligator Alcatraz:

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


39 posted on 07/03/2025 12:05:58 PM PDT by ClaytonForester
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To: Carriage Hill

Carriage Hill wrote:


“Gator GITMO”... LOL!

How about “GatorTraz”?


40 posted on 07/03/2025 12:12:14 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((the more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.) )
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