The Department of Homeland Security has concluded the detention center in the Everglades is too expensive to keep operating
The Department of Homeland Security has concluded the detention center in the Everglades is too expensive to keep operating https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/05/07/federal-and-state-officials-consider-closing-floridas-alligator-alcatraz/?share=ieosntn0lsswfddncaof . Florida is in talks with the Trump administration to shut down a high-profile immigration detention center that opened last summer in the Everglades and has cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars to operate, according to a federal official, a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement official, and a person close to the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis. The shutdown talks are preliminary, the people said. But officials at the Department of Homeland Security have concluded that it is too expensive to keep operating the center, known as Alligator Alcatraz. Homeland Security officials have also come to consider the center ineffective, the federal official said. All three people spoke on the condition of ano...
