President Donald Trump traveled to a remote area of South Florida to tour the state’s newest immigration detention center, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” on Tuesday, coinciding with the same day the government planned to move its first detainees into the facility.

Deep in the marshy wetlands of the Florida Everglades – less than 50 miles west of President Donald Trump’s Doral resort in Miami – sits the latest battleground in his administration’s immigration enforcement efforts: A detention facility dubbed,

President Donald Trump lauded Alabama and other Republican-led states for creating their own versions of Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” on Tuesday. Trump made the comments standing alongside Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Tuesday during a tour of the facility in South Florida.