President Donald Trump will be heading on Tuesday to “Alligator Alcatraz,” a detention facility in the Florida Everglades, as his administration goes all in on the project that’s sparked an outcry from environmental and civil rights groups
“There’s only one road leading in, and the only way out is a one-way flight. It is isolated and surrounded by dangerous wildlife and unforgiving terrain,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Monday. “This is an efficient and low-cost way to help carry out the largest mass deportation campaign in American history.”
The facility was set up in roughly one week, per NBC News, by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration, and was the idea of state Attorney General James Uthmeier. Uthmeier has said he proposed the location — an airstrip that was once intended to be the world’s largest airport until environmental concerns and local activism halted it — because of the surrounding wildlife.