Where is Alligator Alcatraz? Dubbed East Coast version of famed prison, Trump and Kristi Noem visited new ICE detention center in Ochopee, Florida.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The new immigration detention center at an isolated airstrip in the Florida Everglades that President Donald Trump visited on Tuesday was heralded by Republicans as a potential model for other states to aggressively ramp up detention and deportation efforts.

Environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit to block the migrant detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Florida Everglades, calling for state and federal required environmental review. Eve Samples,