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Trump Tours Alligator Alcatraz After Facility Opens in Everglades

The tented camp will initially hold 3,000 detainees with space for 5,000 by early July under a FEMA-backed ICE program.

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President Donald Trump, Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and others, tour “Alligator Alcatraz,” a new migrant detention facility at Dade-Collier Training and Transition facility, Tuesday, July 1, 2025, in Ochopee, Fla. Trump renewed his push to reopen Alcatraz in San Francisco, saying “conceptual work” began months ago — and proposes surrounding the prison with sharks.
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Overview

  • President Donald Trump toured the newly opened camp on July 1 alongside Gov. Ron DeSantis and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem as ICE prepared to admit the first detainees.
  • Florida officials transformed the abandoned Dade-Collier airstrip into a rapid-build, tented detention center in eight days under a 2023 emergency order.
  • The facility currently offers 3,000 beds and will scale to 5,000 by early July at an annual running cost of about $450 million funded through FEMA.
  • Environmental and Native American groups have filed federal lawsuits and staged protests over potential harm to endangered species and the use of tribal lands.
  • The Everglades center is part of a comprehensive expansion of Trump’s mass-deportation strategy that also includes Guantánamo Bay detentions and increased ICE arrests.