{"id":262379,"date":"2026-05-07T18:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/262379\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T18:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:55:07","slug":"florida-speaking-with-feds-about-closing-alligator-alcatraz-report-says-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/262379\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida speaking with feds about closing \u2018Alligator Alcatraz,\u201d report says \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida officials are speaking with the Trump administration about shutting down the immigrant detention center in the Everglades known as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/tag\/alligator-alcatraz\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/tag\/alligator-alcatraz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Alligator Alcatraz<\/a>,&#8221; according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p>The shutdown talks are preliminary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/07\/us\/florida-alligator-alcatraz-possible-closure.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/07\/us\/florida-alligator-alcatraz-possible-closure.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The New York Times reported Thursday<\/a>, citing an anonymous federal official, a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement official, and a person close to the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis.<\/p>\n<p>The report said officials at the Department of Homeland Security have concluded that it is too expensive to keep operating the facility.<\/p>\n<p>NBC6 has reached out to DeSantis&#8217; office, the Florida Division of Emergency Management and the Department of Homeland Security and was waiting to hear back.<\/p>\n<p>The Everglades facility was built last summer at a remote airstrip by DeSantis\u2019 administration to support President Trump\u2019s immigration policies.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple detainees have come forward alleging poor conditions in the facility, and multiple lawsuits have been filed seeking to close it, but an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/appeals-court-keeps-alligator-alcatraz-open-rejecting-federal-environmental-review\/3799054\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/appeals-court-keeps-alligator-alcatraz-open-rejecting-federal-environmental-review\/3799054\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">appeals court last month<\/a> decided it would remain open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida officials are speaking with the Trump administration about shutting down the immigrant detention center in the Everglades&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3120,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-262379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-alligator-alcatraz","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}