US EditionNoem: ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ to Serve as Model for Detention Centers Nationwide
FLORIDA EVERGLADES, AUG 4 – Kristi Noem plans to expand state-run detention centers using $45 billion in ICE funding to increase bed capacity and improve deportation efficiency under Trump’s immigration policies.
- On August 03, 2025, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem hailed Alligator Alcatraz at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport as a model for state-run detention centers.
- Using funding from President Trump's bill, Noem proposed expanding state-based ICE facilities tapping into a $45 billion pool signed last month.
- Built 45 miles west of Miami, the facility can hold 3,000 detainees and costs roughly $450 million in its first year, according to DHS officials.
- Last week, a U.S. district judge ordered officials to disclose management details as the Miccosukee Tribe and environmental groups sued over rights and land issues.
- Noem said she aims to launch similar detention centers in the coming months in Arizona, Nebraska, and Louisiana, with 'most of them interested.
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Omaha World-Herald
Will Nebraska be home to the next ‘Alligator Alcatraz?’
Nebraska reportedly is being considered as a home to one of the federally funded migrant detention centers that U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem hopes to launch across the country.
Florida prepares to build a 2nd immigration detention center to join 'Alligator Alcatraz'
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis ' administration is apparently preparing to build a second immigration detention center, awarding at least one contract for what’s labeled in state records as the “North Detention Facility.”
Everglades detention camp sits in hurricane alley, raising safety fears
Perched on a swampy former airstrip 60 miles west of Miami, the newly opened “Alligator Alcatraz” detention site shelters thousands in fabric tents that could meet Category 5 winds, floodwater, and wildfire long before anyone meets a gator.Hiroko Tabuchi and Mira Rojanasakul report for The New York Times.In short:The state-run facility, built in a week and rated only to Category 2 winds, would have to evacuate up to 4,000 detainees along a singl…
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