Noem Warns Illegal Immigrants to Self-Deport or End Up in ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem warned that illegal immigrants who do not self-deport from the United States could end up at a new Florida detention facility surrounded by alligators that has been dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.” On July 1, President Donald Trump, Noem, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis presided over the opening of the detention center, which has faced pushback from Democrats and activist groups on humanitarian and environmental grounds. The facility is about 40 miles from Miami in a vast, subtropical wetland teeming with alligators, crocodiles, and pythons—fearsome imagery the White House has leveraged to underscore that it is ramping up deportations....