Alligator Alcatraz is the informal name for a large, rapid-build immigration detention facility in Florida being erected at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport inside Big Cypress National Preserve. Announced in June 2025 by state attorney general James Uthmeier and championed by Governor Ron DeSantis, it is located deep in the Everglades west of Miami.
The compound is designed to relieve pressure on federal immigration jails by housing up to 5,000 detainees in a remote area surrounded by alligator- and python-filled wetlands. The nickname alludes to both the local reptile population and the former maximum-security Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in San Francisco Bay, California.
Alligator Alcatraz ICE Internment Camp
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By jdubble07 @ 2025-07-01 11:27:54
jbottero
@ 2025-07-01 19:51:53
This is the gate that leads to the airport support buildings. The airport is actively used by civilian jumbos, and various military jets to do "touch and goes", which is an approach and landing exercise where the jet's main gear touch the runway, and then the jet takes off again. Sometimes the nose gear hit the runway, but not always. I've seen many large jets do a "racetrack" pattern and touch and goes all day long. Pilots like to practice approach and landing, until (as they say) the landing and roll out is as smooth as a baby's bottom. Anyway, jet-wise, that's what goes on at this airport, I was stationed in South Florida for a few years..