President Donald Trump could not keep up with his glorious words yet again! His Florida prison facility is nicknamed Alligator Alcatraz. It was swamped with floodwater just hours after he proudly declared it “hurricane-proof.” The facility is built to hold 3,000 detainees, with the first expected to arrive as soon as July 3, 2025. A second abandoned airport facility, which is now meant to house 2,000 immigrants.
Alas, Trump’s ambitious facility saw water seep into tents and over electrical cables during what local meteorologists described as a “garden-variety rainstorm.” Custodians were left scrambling early morning on July 1, 2025, to clean up the post-hurricane mess.
As we know, Florida has always been a state prone to natural disasters like hurricanes due to its warm ocean waters from the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, and people were not surprised by the incident.
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As per The Irish Star, the flooding came a day after Florida’s Emergency Management Director, Kevin Guthrie, toured the site with Donald Trump and insisted the structure could withstand major hurricanes. Yet a clip shared by Spectrum News reporter Jason Delgado showed pools of water rushing under doors, collecting around flagpoles, and even reaching power cables.
The storm dropped just 1.5 inches of rain in about 45 minutes, which wasn’t long, but still it blew away roofs as water rushed inside the campus. Sounds of the stormed also wiped out speeches ( pun intended) as Governor Ron DeSantis addressed the press. The center is set to begin processing people who entered the U.S. illegally as soon as next week, DeSantis said Friday on “Fox and Friends.”
Online users mocked the disaster on X( formerly Twitter) and wrote: “Power cables running through standing water is a fantastic idea.” Another added, This place is going to become a mold nightmare. And with stronger storms every year, this is a humanitarian disaster waiting to happen.”
A good lil storm passed over us here at ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’
Here’s what it looks & sounds like inside one of these tents.
The state says the sites here are rated to withstand a category two hurricane (~120mph winds). pic.twitter.com/6SyY1hAvkK
— Jason Delgado (@JasonDelgadoX) July 1, 2025
The facility, a.k.a. Alligator Alcatraz, was completed in just eight days, and it has plans to hold thousands of immigrants as part of Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy, which he began in January 2025. The $450 million facility, located 44 miles south of Naples, off U.S. Route 41, will be watched over by 1,000 staff and more than 200 security cameras.
Isn’t it both interesting and scary at the same time how Donald Trump has been so ruthless and adamant to carry forward his mission to ‘Make America Great Again’ by detaining immigrants, despite getting brutal backlash on the policy?
I see they’re bragging about “building” it in 8 days 😂
This place will likely not withstand the first serious storm in the area
“Alligator Alcatraz” what a silly, stupid & CRUEL idea by America’s silliest, stupidest & cruelest citizens 🙄
— Pavlov’s Cat (@PavlovsCat6) July 3, 2025
Donald Trump has reportedly praised the project as a “genius solution” to his immigration crackdown. “We’re surrounded by miles of treacherous swampland,” he said. “The only way out is deportation.” Inside the facility, rows of bunk beds are surrounded by chain-link fencing. In addition, they will also have access to proper medical care, clergy, legal aid, and air conditioning.
As usual, radical supporters of Donald Trump claim this facility will be a great way to detain undocumented immigrants. Still, Environmental groups have raised alarms about its potential impact on nearby ecosystems, especially in the Everglades, a wetland area in Florida known for its mangrove forests, unique animal species. As the name suggests, Everglades means a “grassy green open space.”
Already, urban development and agriculture have decreased the size of the natural habitat, and now experts are worried that Alligator Alcatraz will be a threat to the area. Eve Samples, Friends of the Everglades executive director, spoke in a news release and condemned the project as protests against it began.
“This site is more than 96% wetlands, surrounded by the Big Cypress National Preserve, and is habitat for the endangered Florida panther and other iconic species.” This scheme is not only cruel, it threatens the Everglades ecosystem that state and federal taxpayers have spent billions to protect,” he added. ( via AP)
Meanwhile, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has praised the state of Florida for helping the government with the project and promoting the million-dollar project by selling Alligator Alcatraz-themed merchandise like T-shirts.
