WOW, That's Fast! DeSantis Says Alligator Alcatraz Will Be Ready To Open As Early As Tuesday

Posted • June 27, 2025: The state of Florida is in the process of constructing an ICE detention center colloquially known as Alligator Alcatraz. Proposed by Florida's AG James Uthmeier, and given federal approval on June 23rd, the project was expected to take a month before the facility was prepared to start housing as many as five thousand illegal aliens detained by ICE. Constructing a five-thousand-bed detention facility at a vacant airfield in the heart of the Everglades in less than a month may seem ambitious, but this is Florida, and tackling big projects at record speed is in their DNA. Construction began shortly after receiving DHS approval this week. This morning, Governor Ron DeSantis took Fox News host Steve Doocy on a tour and announced the facility would be ready to start housing detainees as early as this Tuesday. 🚨 Alligator Alcatraz will be ready to house illegal aliens on TUESDAY - construction is moving at breakneck speed! Florida's new illegal alien detention center will be surrounded by gators and pythons, and is RIGHT next to where they can board a plane to be deported. (…)

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