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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.


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KEYWORDS: biden; illegalinvasion
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To: WildHighlander57

That works well, too!


41 posted on 07/03/2025 12:16:49 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Honorary Serb; Z28.310
Yeah, but we don’t have to go Nazi!

Would your beloved Serbia allow just anyone to sneak in and stay, hmmmm?

42 posted on 07/03/2025 12:18:55 PM PDT by null and void (Democrats: fake news, fake presidents, fake beliefs, fake policies, fake protesters & fake voters!)
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To: Honorary Serb
we don’t have to go Nazi!

It's a transfer station, not a death camp.

Just shut up.

43 posted on 07/03/2025 12:39:45 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Show me a RAT, I'll show you a felon.)
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To: MtnClimber

“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.”
— Dante


44 posted on 07/03/2025 12:48:47 PM PDT by Polyxene (Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD. Lord, hear my voice. Psalm 130)
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To: MtnClimber

OMG they put up signs, I am telling you Trump and DeSantis have balls of steel!!!


45 posted on 07/03/2025 12:50:37 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell )
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To: Honorary Serb

You’re really overreacting, dude. Unlike the real Alcatraz, it’s not a prison and no one is staying there permanently. It’s just a way station until they can schedule their flight home. That’s why a site next to a runway was chosen.


46 posted on 07/03/2025 1:00:38 PM PDT by Windcatcher
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To: MtnClimber
I love that a wicked sense of humor has returned to our discourse.

Tomorrow I will celebrate a 4th of July from 45 years ago. I was invited to my NCOIC's quarters, and his wife cooked the best soul food I have ever eaten. When I asked for seconds on chitlings, she was surprised: "Lieutenant, I never knew you liked soul food."

Her jaw dropped when I replied (as the only white guy there), "Ma'am, your cooking is the best. For some reason, I feel like dancing now." Everyone else broke up laughing, that's how we rolled back then, in the days before political correctness. One had to have a thick skin to work in my section, the jibes were universal.

I'll buy an Alligator Alcatraz t-shirt when they're produced.

47 posted on 07/03/2025 1:10:03 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Honorary Serb

Yeah, but we don’t have to go Nazi!

Tell it to Ukraine, the current global nazi epicenter


48 posted on 07/03/2025 1:16:55 PM PDT by Z28.310 (does not comply well with others)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER; lightman

Not all Nazi camps were death camps.

But none of them was very pleasant!

We all need to watch out that we don’t fall into the Nazi trap!

And we can learn a lot from those German Christians who actively opposed the Nazis!


49 posted on 07/03/2025 1:27:01 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Honorary Serb

You’re still overreacting. We have to hold these people SOMEWHERE until they can be processed. If we held them in the middle of an air force base, does that equate to a Nazi camp? What about if we rented out a golf course and put up tents there? Again, we have to hold them somewhere.

For every illegal brought there, that person falls into one of two categories:

1. Has already received a final deportation order
2. Has not (yet) received a final deportation order

Everyone in category #1 is held there only until their final flight out can be scheduled and the plane brought in (a site with a runway was chosen for a reason!)

Everyone in category #2 is held until an immigration judge can decide their fate. There are only two outcomes:

1. The person is issued a final deportation order.
2. The person is ordered released into the country.

Everyone with outcome #1 is held until they can be flown out (see above). Everyone with outcome #2 is released. In no case is anyone held there permanently. That would defeat the purpose of the site: to act as a temporarily holding facility pending processing.


50 posted on 07/03/2025 1:40:20 PM PDT by Windcatcher
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To: Honorary Serb
Nazis!

If you're worried about Nazis, look at the democRATs, not the Republicans.

They are the party of slavery, the KKK, segregation, Jim Crow, Urban Renewal, abortion (black genocide) the Waco Massacre, child trafficking and rape....etc etc etc.

we can learn a lot from those German Christians who actively opposed the Nazis!

You won't find and democRAT Christians. If they claim to be, it's impossible and a lie. Christians can be found in abundance in the Republican Party.

51 posted on 07/03/2025 1:41:33 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Show me a RAT, I'll show you a felon.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER; lightman

I know plenty of ORTHODOX Christians who are Democrats!

I’m an Orthodox Christian (former Lutheran) and an Independent!

But I do not think that today’s Democrat party likes Orthodox Christians at all!


52 posted on 07/03/2025 2:02:02 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Windcatcher

TRUMP IS BRINGING IN MILITARY JAG OFFICERS TO BE IMMIGRATION JUDGES.

THEY WILL MOVE ‘EM OUT ON PLANES VERY FAST


53 posted on 07/03/2025 2:12:52 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Honorary Serb
I know plenty of ORTHODOX Christians who are Democrats!

Baby-killing/faggot-loving "christians"....not likely.

54 posted on 07/03/2025 2:13:23 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Show me a RAT, I'll show you a felon.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Many Democrats—not just Orthodox ones—have to ignore those aspect of the Democrat ethos!

Nicht so gut!


55 posted on 07/03/2025 2:18:40 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Night Hides Not

My dad retired from the Army in 1963. He told the story of his commanding officer, wa Colonel, and how he gave him his radio call sign, Blackbird One! He said the Colonel loved it but the other officers were afraid to use it.


56 posted on 07/03/2025 2:30:31 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: shotgun

My favorite term for my CO was “Old Man”. Of course, that was never uttered in his presence. I cherished being referred to as “The Old Man” when I was a Battery Commander at Fort Bliss, at the ripe old age of 29.


57 posted on 07/03/2025 2:43:57 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Honorary Serb
Many Democrats—not just Orthodox ones—have to ignore those aspect of the Democrat ethos!

Well that's a lot to ignore, slavery, racism, baby-killing, child molesting, election theft, satanism, constant lying. In fact, I defy you to name one honorable tenet of the RAT agenda.

Since they are seemingly so deaf and blind, it's our job to remind them.

Remember: 98% of democRATs make the rest look bad.

58 posted on 07/03/2025 3:56:55 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Show me a RAT, I'll show you a felon.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

No, 20% of democRATs make the rest look bad.

Those are the minority who are professional RATs!


59 posted on 07/03/2025 6:01:51 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Ha — that’s great!


60 posted on 07/03/2025 6:04:34 PM PDT by Yardstick
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