Overview

• During a July 1 briefing at the Everglades site dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz", Noem said U.S. Marshals reported detaining a self-proclaimed cannibal who began eating himself aboard a deportation flight.
• She invoked the account to label undocumented migrants as “deranged” and reinforce the administration’s policy of targeting the “worst of the worst” for rapid deportation.
• Florida completed the makeshift detention camp in eight days on 39 square miles to handle increased removal processing under new federal-state cooperation.
• President Trump and Gov. DeSantis backed the fast-built Everglades facility and encouraged other governors to replicate its model for mass immigration enforcement.
• Rights groups and federal courts have raised legal challenges over the use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act and conditions at emergency detention sites.