High Operational Cost Cited for Alligator Alcatraz's Closing

Thursday, June 18, 2026

Florida will soon close Alligator Alcatraz, a highly publicized immigration detention center that opened in the Everglades less than a year ago, according to multiple news reports citing unidentified officials.

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The US has emptied the immigration detention camp in the Florida Everglades known as Alligator Alcatraz after the state spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the high-profile jail to support Trump's mass deportation agenda.

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... Documents obtained in March by the Naples Daily News, part of the USA TODAY Network, indicated $1 million per day was spent on Alligator Alcatraz.

Florida State Rep. Anna Eskamani, an Orlando Democrat, told the Naples Daily News and Fort Myers News-Press on May 12 that she received a text from a member of Congress that said the center was closing.

The 1,400 people held in the center will be removed in the next few weeks. It is not yet known where they will be moved.

Alligator Alcatraz was built in eight days, and then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said it would serve as a blueprint for similar sites elsewhere. Florida opened a second site at the Baker Correctional Institution, dubbed the "Deportation Depot."

USA TODAY reviewed the construction, cost, size and capacity of Alligator Alcatraz, as well as the political and environmental objections to it. Here is what we found. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-06-17 02:00 PM | Reply

"The cost of operating the center is the reason."

Just charge Trump more.
He'll be happy to pay double.
Triple if they can make the conditions at Alligator Auschwitz even more inhumane.

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-17 02:01 PM | Reply

indicated $1 million per day
1,400 people held

"In April 2026, records report that the cost of US$1.2 million per day for 1,400 people detained corresponds to US$850 per day and per bed." en.wikipedia.org

$850 per day is $310,250 per year.
We're paying $310,250 per year to keep these people in the United States, rather than deport them.
$310,250 per year is a Top 5% Income in the United States.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-17 02:07 PM | Reply

the reason is because all of the things you liars lied about that they would not have...were

proven to be lies....like living in a Florida swamp with no AC or cover......"and all that jazz'.

#4 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-06-17 07:03 PM | Reply

Imbeciles

#5 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-06-17 09:01 PM | Reply

He built that and opened that in 8 days and it cost $1,000,000 per day to run it, People beaten, raped, no medical treatment, Food with roaches, mosquitos, malaria, hell torture and torment,

It was a concentration camp

And he opened it based on Trumps promise to pay and reimburse for it,

And we all know how that goes, If it ain't lining Trumpie's pocket, He ain't giving it

And I live in Florida, DeSantis gutted our hurricane emergency fund to pay for it, That was where the governor of Florida got the money to do that, He gutted the hurricane fund

If we have a bad hurricane year, We are screwed till those reserves are built back up, And the federal government sure won't help anyone

#6 | Posted by gypsydiane8177 at 2026-06-18 08:05 AM | Reply