The detention immigration facility is located in an idle airstrip in the Everglades that the DeSantis administration recently seized from Miami-Dade County using emergency powers.

If someone escapes, you know, there’s a lot of alligators. No one’s going anywhere.” That’s Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, justifying the reasoning for the state’s newest and most contentious immigration detention facility,

On Wednesday night, workers replaced the signs in front of the training facility with ones that read "Alligator Alcatraz."