Alligator Alcatraz

Alligator Alcatraz is an immigration detention facility in Florida, United States, 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 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.

Contentions have been flying over the dehumanization side of the facility. We will discuss it all here.