Florida Governor Ron DeSantis bragged about his recent tour of 'alligator alcatraz' with President Donald Trump and Secretary Kristi Noem during a recent press conference in Duval County, Florida.

Mega-farmer Francis Alfred “Alfie” Oakes III addresses the camera at one of his farms in Collier County. Behind him are workers, all of them immigrants, whom he says are superior

Alligator Alcatraz, the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, had a special visitor July 1 − President Donald Trump. It marked the first visit back to his home state in two months.

A July 2024 report in the AZ Animals blog sums up the largest alligator population by state: Louisiana: 2 million alligators; Florida: 1.3 million alligators; Texas: 400,000 to 500,000 alligators ...

People demonstrate outside the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in Ochopee, Florida, in a rally against the state's forthcoming "Alligator Alcatraz" ICE detention center. on June 28, 2025.

A handful of Democratic state lawmakers in Florida filed a lawsuit on Thursday after they were denied entry into the “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention facility, according to court records.