U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on June 12 that she was in talks with five Republican-led states to build another detention site inspired by the "Alligator Alcatraz" facility in Florida.
"We've had several other states that are actually using Alligator Alcatraz as a model for how they can partner with us," Noem told a press conference in Florida.
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She declined to name the states.
"Alligator Alcatraz" is a remote migrant detention center, which sits some 37 miles (60 km) from Miami in a vast subtropical wetland teeming with alligators, crocodiles and pythons.
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