Tom Homan slams critics of the Florida Everglades detention facility 'Alligator Alcatraz,' citing high migrant death toll concerns during Biden's presidency.

Democratic members of the Florida congressional delegation want to stop federal money from flowing to what they described as the “lawless, inhumane immigration detention site” in the

President Donald Trump campaigned on a tough immigration policy and rode that wave all the way to a second term in the White House. He backed up his talk with action by stepping up deportations utilizing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in controversial ways.

The following three articles on Alligator Alcatraz focus on immigration, environmental impact and politics. The camp sits in the Florida Everglades, using the old Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport site. Catch up below. Where, exactly, the state is building the facility. | Published June 25, 2025 | Read Full Story by Alex Harris

The big complex out in the Everglades has plenty of beds, and it’s certainly meant to be a short-term stopover, but it’s no Holiday Inn.

The camp appears designed to inflict suffering on detainees and to allow Florida politicians to exploit migrant pain for political gain.

When the Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times published a list Sunday of more than 700 detainees held at the A lligator Alcatraz detention facility in South Florida, it confirmed what many have suspected all along: Despite political claims to the contrary, many of the migrants being detained have no U.S. criminal convictions or pending charges.

“Alligator Alcatraz” is the insulting name Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has given the inhumane detention center he has erected in the Everglades to house immigrants rounded up in the Trump administration’s draconian assault on allegedly undocumented people living in the United States.

Florida established the Everglades immigration detention center in an effort to help the Trump administration meet its deportation goals.

Republicans get to own the libs, look tough on immigration; Dems courageously risk nationwide TV exposure with abortive inspection mission