Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' detention facility to be empty 'within a few days'

Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' detention facility to be empty 'within a few days'

Greg Allen

August 28, 2025 / 8:22 am

MIAMI — The immigration detention center in Florida's Everglades that officials have dubbed " Alligator Alcatraz " soon will hold no detainees.

In an email sent to a South Florida rabbi inquiring about serving as a chaplain at the facility, the director of Florida's Department of Emergency Management, Kevin Guthrie, replied, "We are probably going to be down to 0 individuals within a few days."

Asked Wednesday about the declining population at the detention center , Fla. Gov. Ron DeSantis said, "I do think they've increased the pace of the removals from there."

In a ruling issued last week, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams ordered Florida and the Trump adm