WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump will travel to Florida on July 1 for the opening of a new illegal immigrant detention facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” due to its remote location and surrounding wildlife, according to the White House.
The facility is located at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, a sparsely used airstrip deep in the Everglades and roughly 36 miles southwest of Miami in the town of Ochopee, Florida. The Miami-Dade County government owns the site.
“There is only one road leading in, and the only way out is a one-way flight,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said during a press briefing....
