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,

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.

U.S. President Donald Trump will attend the opening on Tuesday of a remote migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" as he pressures lawmakers to deliver a sweeping spending bill aimed at ramping up deportations.