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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: Honorary Serb
20% of democRATs make the rest look bad.

Nope, anybody who would adhere to the party of slavery, terrorism, faggotry and baby killing is FILTH and deserves only scorn, mockery and derision.

And if they deny any of the things I said they are, they are either lying or stupid, and should be ashamed to be associated with the RATs.

61 posted on 07/03/2025 7:02:22 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Show me a RAT, I'll show you a felon.)
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To: Honorary Serb
Those are the minority who are professional RATs!

If so, then why aren't the remaining 80% rising up nationwide in loud and vigorous opposition to the outrageous anti-American and anti-Semitic positions of the "professional RATs"?

Answer: Because they either agree with them or they don't actually exist.

(see: 2024 county by county election map)

62 posted on 07/03/2025 7:08:00 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Show me a RAT, I'll show you a felon.)
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To: MtnClimber

This is sooooo damn funny. Can’t wait to see the pics.
There will be funny memes on X based on the photo’s.


63 posted on 07/03/2025 7:12:57 PM PDT by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRobr 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Or they like the Republicans less!


64 posted on 07/03/2025 7:14:22 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Honorary Serb
Or they like the Republicans less!

Which reflects back on the part about them being stupid.

65 posted on 07/03/2025 7:24:01 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Show me a RAT, I'll show you a felon.)
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To: null and void

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

They let them in only to go to other countries. That’s why Hungary built their border fence.


66 posted on 07/04/2025 2:23:56 AM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: rlmorel
"Dinner for Days!"

Absolutely, and then some. I watch Swamp People: Serpent Invasion on the History Channel. From watching them cut open female pythons loaded with eggs, I'm betting that python was a female and full of eggs. One female they caught had 70 eggs in her.

67 posted on 07/04/2025 8:30:36 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

Ugh. I am not anti-snake, but damn. They certainly do qualify as an invasive pest species!


68 posted on 07/04/2025 12:15:10 PM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: rlmorel
"Ugh. I am not anti-snake, but damn. They certainly do qualify as an invasive pest species!"

That they do, and that's not the only invasive critter. This article lists 11 invasive lizard species in Florida. The State pays for people to capture them too:

11 Invasive Lizards in Florida (With Pictures)

69 posted on 07/04/2025 1:41:22 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

I had no idea there are Monitor Lizards living wild in Florida. Wow.


70 posted on 07/04/2025 1:54:56 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: gitmo
"I had no idea there are Monitor Lizards living wild in Florida. Wow."

Yeah, they're nasty. Glad I don't live in that state.

71 posted on 07/04/2025 3:39:35 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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