Alligator Alcatraz is a stain on America. Kristi Noem wants more of them. The Everglades detention center is a model of detainee abuse— and it could be spreading.

Aug. 6, 2025, 3:40 PM EDT

By Zeeshan Aleem

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told CBS News that she wants to expand the brutal "Alligator Alcatraz" model of immigration detention across the country in the coming months, and is already considering sites in Arizona, Nebraska and Louisiana. Given what we know about the first site in Florida , that's terrible news.

The first one was set up at a jetport in the Everglades in South Florida in July and is surrounded by 39 square miles of swampland. CBS News reports that the site was set up in just eight days.

The Trump administration has openly admitted that cruelty

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