"I was kind of offended on the alligator's behalf with the way they talk about them," she said. "I don't think the alligator wants its name attached to the word Alcatraz."

The idea of an Everglades Jetport ended because it would 'inexorably destroy the south Florida ecosystem and thus the Everglades National Park.'

An immigration detention facility located at an isolated Everglades airfield surrounded by mosquito-, python- and alligator-filled swamplands is just days away from being operational.