First Inmates Arrive At Florida Concentration Camp

The Miami Herald reports:

The first detainees arrived at Alligator Alcatraz late Wednesday night, even as the immigration detention facility in the Florida Everglades has already faced some operational issues with security and water intrusion. On Wednesday evening, the gates of the facility were bustling with traffic. Three white vans escorted by sedans drove into the compound. The vans looked like those previously used by immigration authorities to transport migrants, although it’s unclear who was in them.

The site’s name also became official on Wednesday, when two workers slapped a large blue guidepost that said “Alligator Alcatraz” over the old “Dade-Collier Transitional Airport” road sign that led people to the airstrip for years.

Earlier Wednesday, the Miami Herald reviewed a video that showed a person using what appears to be a credit card jimmying open a door that leads into one of the chain-linked cells where immigrant detainees are expected to sleep. Neither the state nor the contractor, GardaWorld, would discuss the issue when asked to comment.

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Alligator Alcatraz to receive first immigrant detainees Wednesday night https://t.co/iIJfLjeccC

— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) July 3, 2025

This is a sign outside the Everglades concentration camp posted by a local reporter. I can barely believe they took their political theater, reality tv bullshit as far as making Alligator Alcatraz the actual name and put it on a sign. America is not run by serious people. 🤡 pic.twitter.com/D93D1vjnTD

— Cindy Banyai for Florida House 78 (@Cindy_Banyai_FL) July 3, 2025

Workers just replaced the Dade Collier Training and Transition Airport with an Alligator Alcatraz sign pic.twitter.com/kB2wAiU6QC

— David Goodhue (@DavidGoodhue) July 3, 2025