Noem approves money for Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention center

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Monday the federal government will fund a state push from Florida to set up immigration detention centers, including a proposed site in the Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz.”

Noem said the push to create the detention centers will be funded “in large part” by the Federal Emergency Management Agency‘s shelter and services program. This program, created by Congress in 1987, has supported places receiving migrants and asylum seekers who were released from federal custody at the U.S.-Mexico border.