“Alcatraz dos alligators” receives first immigrants. Noem talks about “cannibal that has eaten himself”

The new immigrant detention center known as “Alcatraz dos alligators” has already been inaugurated. It has been installed in just eight days and is surrounded by wild animals.

The illegal immigrant detention center in the state of Florida known as “Alcatraz two Jacarés”For being in an infested area of ​​predator animals, the first group of detainees received Wednesday, said the state attorney general.

“The Alcatraz of alligators will ‘check in’ of hundreds of illegal criminal immigrants tonight,” said Florida Republican Attorney General James Uthmeier on social network X.

“Next stop: Back where they came“He said, alluding to his deportation from the United States.

The center was installed in just eight dayson a landing track in the swamp region of the Everglades. It has over 200 security cameras, over 8500 meters of barbed wire and 400 security agents.

US President Donald Trump participated Tuesday at the inauguration of the Detention Center, mocking that immigrants who try to escape the place run the place risk of being attacked by wild animals.

When asked by journalists about whether the goal of the immigrant detention center was, in case of escape, being attacked by reptiles, Donald Trump replied: “This is the concept“.

“The snakes are fast, but the alligators … Let’s teach them how to flee a alligator, okay?” Trump said in a joking tone.

State authorities stated that the “Alcatraz dos alligators”, a center that described as temporary, will have tents and Roulottes, allowing the state Add 5000 immigrant detention beds until early July and free space in local arrests.

Like in other similar centers in the country, the authorities temporarily intend to determine illegal immigrants while waiting for deportation from the country.

The name Alcatraz refers to the historic prison Once the Californian city of San Francisco, in a rock in the sea where some of the largest criminals in the country were sent for decades.

For the governor of Florida, Ron Denantis, and other state authorities, the isolation of the aerodrome in the Everglades, surrounded by moist zones full of mosquitoes, poisonous snakes and alligators, considered sacred to the native tribes American, makes it an ideal place to stop illegal immigrants.

“Clearly, from the point of view of security, if someone escapes, they know, there are many alligators,” said Discantis, who was one of the presidential appointment by the Republican Party in 2024.

Ron Desantis also indicated that he is evaluating the construction of the second center in a Florida National Guard training camp, known as Camp Blanding, about 48 kilometers southwest of Jacksonville, in the northeast of the state.

The Republican governor stressed his willingness to help President Donald Trump’s executive achieve his goal of more than Duplicate detention capacity of current 41 000 beds for at least 100 000 beds across the country.

The US President made the fight against illegal immigration a maximum priority, referring to a “Invasion” from the United States by “abroad criminals” and speaking extensively about the deportations of immigrants.

Democrats and activists condemned the plan as an insensitive and politically motivated spectacle.

Environmental groups from Florida presented last week a federal lawsuit to block the construction of the detention center of immigrants until it is subject to a strict environmental review, as required by federal and state laws.

The appeal to the court joins the center for biological diversity and the friends of the Everglades.

The project also motivated Protests of indigenous peoples They consider the Holy Land, including 15 traditional Miccosukee tribal villages and remnant seminole, as well as ceremonial and funeral places and other meeting places.

Cannibal immigrant “ate itself”

One of the most talked about moments of the presentation of the new prison was starring Kristi Noem, the US internal security secretary, who claims that a police marshal told him that he stopped a cannibal immigrant who, besides having already “eaten others”,, began to “eat yourself” During the deportation flight. Noem used the case as an example of the type of “unbalanced” individuals who, according to her, enter the US and have to be deported.

This was already the second time Noem had this claim, after initially said in an interview with the Fox News channel. Confronted with additional questions, not insisted that the report was made as if it were a banal caseadding that the individual would have identified himself as a cannibal.

Despite the insistences of the press, not refused to provide any proof of what happened. Neither the Department of Internal Security (DHS) nor the Border Immigration and Control Service (ICE) confirmed the existence of such a case in their public records. The site, which investigated the allegation, found no evidence regardless of the history of the “deported cannibal”.

This type of rhetoric is part of an increasingly visible pattern in the Trump administration narrative. In recent months, the president and his allies, such as billionaire Elon Musk, have promoted unruly allegations that associate immigrants, especially Haitians, with cannibalism. In March 2024, Musk and far-right commentators described “Cannibal Gangs” in Haitisuggesting that its members were illegally entering the US.

In addition to cannibalism, there have been several accusations that immigrants were eating the pets of American families, with many of these allegations to be made by commentator Laura Lomer. Donald Trump himself came to his debate with Kamala Harris stating that immigrants “are eating dogs and cats“.

In rallies, Trump also often mentions the famous fictitious cannibal Hannibal Lecter, from the book series and movies The silence of the innocent. “We have many Hannibal Lecters entering our country,” he said in a speech in 2025.

In addition to the cannibalism allegations, Trump has promoted discredited ideas such as “genetic crime”, Stating that certain immigrants have“ bad genes ”. This theory, with roots in eugenic doctrines of the nineteenth century, was used to justify scientific racism and inspired discriminatory policies, including Nazi Germany.

Experts warn that these narratives are based on racist colonial myths. Professor Marlene Daut, from the University of Yale, recalls that the West has a long history of use false cannibalism allegations To dehumanize colonized peoples, especially after the 1804 Haitian Revolution. “It is disturbing that Elon Musk repeat these absurdities,” he said.

Kristi Noem has also been previously involved in various controversies. In his memories book, at Going Back (2024), it included episodes with world leaders such as Kim Jong Un and Emmanuel Macron, which were quickly denied. The autobiography also included the controversial report of When it killed a bitch.

More recently, he was accused of omitting donations worth $ 80,000 in his financial statements and lying about a supposed secret service intervention against a Democratic Senator, something that was denied by video images.