What is Alligator Alcatraz? Detention center to open in Florida So-called "Alligator Alcatraz" will be a site as part of a new detention facility located in the Everglades in South Florida The facility sits on a 39-square mile vacant airfield with a roughly
What to know about Floridas Alligator Alcatraz - Axios Miami Attorney General James Uthmeier has championed the plan for "Alligator Alcatraz " Photo: Joe Burbank Orlando Sentinel Tribune News Service via Getty Images In less than a week's time, a proposal to build an immigration detention center on an airstrip in the Everglades went from a controversial idea to getting the green light from the federal