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The federal government is now backing Florida's plan to build immigration detention centers
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including one in the middle of the Everglades dubbed Alligator Alcatraz. Homeland Security
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Secretary Kristi Noem says FEMA will fund most of the effort using money from a congressional
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program meant to support cities taking in migrants from the border. But Florida is going a step
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further, announcing plans to detain immigrants with criminal records at a repurposed, mostly
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abandoned airfield deep in the Everglades. They're calling it Alligator Alcatraz. Florida Attorney
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General James Uthmeyer says the state could house up to 5,000 detainees, with transfers beginning
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as early as next month
