On Tuesday, June 1, President Donald Trump toured the newly-established immigration detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz" in the Florida Everglades. This 5,000-bed facility, controversial for its surrounding alligator-infested waters, symbolizes the stringent measures of his immigration policies.

Trump announced on Tuesday that his administration is already working on reopening the original Alcatraz, in California. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

"Alligator Alcatraz" is the nickname for a planned temporary immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades. President Trump is visiting July 1.

Trump is celebrating — and even joking about — the harsh conditions of the controversial immigration detention facility in Florida.

Florida’s controversial new immigration detention facility, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” is set to begin holding its first group of detainees, just two days after US President Donald Trump visited the site.

President Donald Trump is visiting Alligator Alcatraz, the temporary migrant detention center in Florida's Everglades, on July 1.

GOP lawmakers excitedly described the center's harsh, dangerous surroundings, seemingly implying that detainees who try to escape will suffer great injury or death

Five Florida state Democrat lawmakers on Thursday were denied access to the state's newly opened "migrant" detention facility that has been dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz."

Trump was set to visit "Alligator Alcatraz" around 10 a.m. ET on Tuesday, July 1. The Florida AG said Trump's visit to "Alligator Alcatraz" was scheduled to be livestreamed on Uthmeier's social media channels, including Rumble, YouTube, Facebook and X.

A group of five Democratic state lawmakers in Florida said they were denied entry to “Alligator Alcatraz,” a new migrant detention facility, on Thursday due to “safety reasons,“ days after President Trump toured the facility alongside Florida Gov.