Kristi Noem says "Alligator Alcatraz" to be model for ICE state-run detention centers

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Source: CBS News/Boston

Updated on: August 4, 2025 / 1:04 PM EDT


Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says "Alligator Alcatraz" will serve as a model for state-run migrant detention centers, and she told CBS News in an interview that she hopes to launch a handful of similar detention centers in multiple airports and jails across the country, in the coming months. Potential sites are already under consideration in Arizona, Nebraska and Louisiana.

"The locations we're looking at are right by airport runways that will help give us an efficiency that we've never had before," Noem said, adding that she's appealed directly to governors and state leaders nationwide to gauge their interest in contributing to the Trump administration's program to detain and deport more unauthorized migrants.

"Most of them are interested," Noem said, adding that in states that support President Trump's mission of securing the southern border, "many of them have facilities that may be empty or underutilized."

The Department of Homeland Security strategy builds on the opening of a 3,000-bed immigration detention center at a jetport in South Florida last month. Dubbed Alligator Alcatraz by state and federal officials, the makeshift facility will cost an estimated $450 million to operate in its first year. Up and running in just 8 days, the tents and trailers at Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport are surrounded by 39 square miles of isolated swampland, boasting treacherous terrain and wildlife.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alligator-alcatraz-model-kristi-noem-homeland-security/

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Waste. Fraud. Abuse.

[orangecrush]

1. Once they are stopped

There can be no "moving forward" from this.

There must be trials.

[mitch96]

2. "model for ICE state-run detention centers" ... doesn't she mean concentration camps??? SeigHellllllll nt

[Deuxcents]

3. De Santis is all in and happy to pass along the expenses to us, the taxpayers of Florida

[Hassler]

4. What costume did Kristi the Plastic Garden Noem

Wear for this event? I'm guessing something with alligator skin boots.

[Lovie777]

5. S I C K..................

[duhneece]

6. I think about her children and wonder how they will feel in 20 years, 40 years

I won’t be around for 40 years and will be lucky to live another 20 years.
Years ago I read a book about the children of 8 Nazi leaders and how they saw their fathers. Some despised them and severed relationships. Some despised them but still loved their fathers. Some agreed with the evil their fathers did.
So I can’t guess how her children will feel about this cruel, evil woman.

[bluestarone]

7. Well, i actually want to keep it.

Someplace to put all these domestic terrorists and their leaders!!

[dedl67]

8. "I do not believe America is capable of creating an Auschwitz" Neil Postman (1988)

Postman was comparing tendencies in the US in the 1980's with Germany in the 1930's. Maybe it is best that Postman did not live long enough to see how wrong he probably was. Postman was a very perceptive man, and very critical of the state of civilization of the US, but even he could not foresee how low it could descend.

[sakabatou]

9. Call them what they are: concentration camps

[Bristlecone]

10. She should look up how this sort of thing ended for Shad Ledue

[Initech]

11. This is absolutely disgusting. Fuck this administration!

[Martin68]

12. MODEL CONCENTRATION CAMP.

[artemisia1]

13. So, it will be the Dachau of the new regime? Bergen Belsen and Auschwitz to follow... /nt

[cstanleytech]

14. Concentration camp.

[LudwigPastorius]

15. That place is a death trap.

Locked cages underneath, what looks like, flammable tents...

No surprise that Aufseherin Barbie wants to concentrate brown people in similar camps.