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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Noem wants ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention centers near airport runways across US to boost migrant deportation ‘efficiency’

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem envisions more “Alligator Alcatraz”-like immigration detention centers across the country, including near airport runways, to boost the “efficiency” of Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda.

The Florida facility is serving as a model for state-run detention centers, and “the locations we’re looking at are right by airport runways that will help give us an efficiency that we've never had before,” Noem told CBS News.

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