Republican states are considering building versions of Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz," a detention facility for illegal immigrants that was celebrated by President Donald Trump.

As Florida moved quickly to build an immigration detention facility in the Everglades, some critics likened the site to a concentration camp. Some TikTok videos attempted to lend credence to the analogy: Alligator Alcatraz, they said, is getting incinerators.

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At the direction of Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida is quickly constructing a $450 million-a-year immigration detention center, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz."

The detention immigration facility is located in an idle airstrip in the Everglades that the DeSantis administration recently seized from Miami-Dade County using emergency powers.

The president and local authorities boast that alligators and pythons will prevent escapes. Five people have died this year in the state while detained by ICE. The president and local authorities boast that alligators and pythons will prevent escapes.

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The environmental impacts will be devastating,' the groups wrote to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida