"Alligator Alcatraz" is the nickname for a planned temporary immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades. President Trump is visiting July 1.

The new immigration detention center at an isolated airstrip in the Florida Everglades that President Donald Trump visited was heralded by Republicans as a potential model for other states to aggressively ramp up detention and deportation efforts.

For months, unease over President Donald Trump’s immigration dragnet had been building in Miami, which has a larger share of foreign-born residents than any major city in America.