“Alligator Alcatraz” lies about 40 miles west of Miami International Airport and halfway to Naples. Over the past week, the ...

"Alligator Alcatraz" is the nickname for a planned temporary immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades. President ...

A new state-run immigration detention center nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz” is set to open Tuesday in the Everglades.

President Donald Trump is planning to visit a new immigration detention facility in the Florida Everglades on Tuesday.

President Trump is expected to take a walking tour of a temporary migrant detention center being referred to as Alligator ...

I was kind of offended on the alligator’s behalf with the way they talk about them,” she said. “I don’t think the alligator wants its name attached to the word Alcatraz.” ...

Alligator Alcatraz is located in South Florida, off U.S. 41, also known as Tamiami Trail. The site is about 60 miles east of Naples as the crow flies, or about 40 miles west of Miami.

Map shows Florida location Alligator Alcatraz is being built at the Miami-Dade Collier Training and Transition Airport, a 39-square-mile airport facility with a 10,500-foot runway.