Trump Tours ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ ICE Detention Center

The first photos of “Alligator Alcatraz” give a bleak inside look at the new migrant center deep in the Florida Everglades — as authorities prepare to stash up to 5,000 detainees in wire cages there.

Video taken during a tour by President Trump on Tuesday revealed rows upon rows of empty industrial metal bunk beds enclosed in hastily constructed cages made up of chain fences.

“[President] Biden wanted me in here, that son of a b—h,” President Trump said jokingly Tuesday as he was shown around the vast secure facility hidden within the subtropical wetlands of South Florida teeming with alligators, crocodiles and pythons.

“I looked outside, and that’s not a place I want to go hiking anytime soon,” Trump told reporters after his tour. “We’re surrounded by miles of treacherous swampland, and the only way out is really deportation.”

📍ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ

"Very soon, this facility will house some of the most menacing migrants—some of the most vicious people on the planet." - PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/sn5igFZGHU

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 1, 2025

The complex, located at the Dade Collier Training and Transition Airport, will cost an estimated $450 million a year to operate, and the first migrants are set to arrive as soon as Wednesday.

Trump said jokingly that new detainees were going to be taught how to evade alligators by Homeland Security.

“We’re going to teach them how to run away from an alligator, OK, if they escape from prison,” he said.

“How to run away. Don’t run in a straight line. Run like this,” he added, making zigzag motions with his hands.