The end of Alligator Alcatraz? DeSantis says it ‘would be great’ to shut it down

Governor Ron DeSantis speaks to reporters during a press conference on the airplane runway of Alligator Alcatraz in Ochopee , Florida on Friday, July 25, 2025. Next to the governor is Florida Department of Financial Services Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia and Florida State Board of Immigration Enforcement Executive Director Larry Keefe. PHOTO BY AL DIAZ adiaz@miamiherald.com

By Claire Heddles and Churchill Ndonwie

Gov. Ron DeSantis is now backing plans to shutter Florida’s state-run immigration detention facility in the Everglades, 10 months after the state opened it and after spending hundreds of millions of dollars on its construction and operation.

He told reporters in Lakeland Thursday that “it would be great for us to break that facility down,” following a New York Times report that the Department of Homeland Security and state officials were considering closing Alligator Alcatraz.

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