Kristi Noem recently said she was having conversations with other Republican governors about opening facilities in their states modeled after "Alligator Alcatraz." But the potential immigration lockup at Angola would operate differently.

The president has also called for the original Alcatraz—the famed island prison that was turned into a top tourist attraction in San Francisco— to be reopened and used “to house America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post in May.

The Trump administration is reportedly in talks with Louisiana officials to send immigrant detainees to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, the country’s largest maximum security prison.