DeSantis hails ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ as victory while confirming its shutdown

‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ the state-run Everglades immigration lockup, is closed, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday, hailing the facility as a success for state and federal partnerships and the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigration.

It lasted just under a year.

Joined by Border Czar Tom Homan and Florida Immigration Enforcement Director Anthony Coker, DeSantis claimed the facility kept dangerous criminals away from Floridians (he rattled off names of migrants accused of rape and murder), exemplified how …