Alligator Alcatraz is an immigration detention facility erected at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport inside Big Cypress National Preserve in Ochopee, Florida. Announced in June 2025 by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier and championed by Governor Ron DeSantis, it is located in the Everglades west of Miami, surrounded by "alligator- and python-infested waters".

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The name alludes to both the local reptile population and the former maximum-security Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in San Francisco Bay, California.

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