A new state-run immigration detention center nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz” is set to open Tuesday in the Everglades.

A key selling point for the White House is the site’s remoteness near swampland. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt says, “A detention center surrounded by alligators, yes, I do think that’s a deterrent for them to try to escape.

Deep in the marshy wetlands of the Florida Everglades – less than 50 miles west of President Donald Trump’s Doral resort in Miami – sits the latest battleground in his administration’s immigration enforcement efforts: A detention facility dubbed,