Other ICE detention centers like Alligator Alcatraz have been under consideration for other locations, including in North Florida, Indiana and Nebraska.

A hiker has been hospitalized after an alligator attacked and bit her on a Florida hiking trail, authorities say. The woman, who has not been identified, was hiking on the Bird Rookery Swamp Trail in Collier County, between Naples and Fort Myers, when the incident took place on Sunday, August 17.

Orlando Congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost delivered sharp criticism of the site, describing it as "inhumane" and calling for it to be shut down.

Gov. Ron DeSantis has said the location in the rugged and remote Everglades was meant as a deterrent against escape, much like the island prison in California that Republicans named it after. The detention center has an estimated annual cost of $450 million, according to a public database.

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Florida's DeSantis unveils new immigration detention center dubbed 'Deportation Depot' to expand deportations.

A routine wildlife call turned into a multi-agency arrest operation on Aug. 16, when the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) said one of its officers responded to a request from the Okeechobee County Sheriff’s Office regarding an illegally captured alligator in the Viking area.

An alligator made a meal out of an invasive Burmese python at Shark Valley in the Florida Everglades, near Alligator Alcatraz, an ICE detention center

The University of Florida unveiled a new alligator statue in front of Library West for the 100th anniversary of the George A. Smathers Libraries.