By Katherine Tinsley
12:57pm PDT, Jun 24, 2025
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Kristi Noem announced on Monday, June 23, that the federal government will finance the proposed detention center in the Florida Everglades known as "Alligator Alcatraz."
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Kristi Noem clarified "Alligator Alcatraz" will be funded "in large part" by the Federal Emergency Management Agency: "Under President [Donald] Trump's leadership, we are working at turbo speed on cost-effective and innovative ways to deliver on the American people's mandate for mass deportations of criminal illegal aliens," Noem told
CBS News. "We will expand facilities and bed space in just days, thanks to our partnership with Florida."
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Florida Attorney General
James Uthmeier discussed the facility in an interview: "There's really nowhere to go. If you're housed there, if you're detained there, there's no way in, no way out," he said in
an interview with conservative commentator Benny Johnson.
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James Uthmeier shared that Florida officials "will fight alongside this administration to keep Florida safe, strong, and free." Added the Republican politician, "I'm proud to help support President [Donald] Trump and Secretary [Kristi] Noem in their mission to fix our illegal immigration problem once and for all. Alligator Alcatraz and other Florida facilities will do just that."
