{"id":10601,"date":"2025-06-24T21:20:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T21:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-administration-eyes-alligator-alcatraz-for-migrant-detentions\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T21:20:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T21:20:45","slug":"trump-administration-eyes-alligator-alcatraz-for-migrant-detentions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-administration-eyes-alligator-alcatraz-for-migrant-detentions\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration eyes &#8216;Alligator Alcatraz&#8217; for migrant detentions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration is expediting plans for a new Florida detention site for undocumented migrants awaiting deportation by tapping into funds set aside by the Biden administration, with Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier pitching the idea as an &#8220;Alligator Alcatraz&#8221; and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem accusing Biden of using the FEMA fund to house undocumented migrants&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/5366062-trump-administration-expedites-florida-detention-site\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration is expediting plans for a new Florida detention site for undocumented migrants awaiting deportation by tapping into funds set aside by the Biden administration, with Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier pitching the idea as an &#8220;Alligator Alcatraz&#8221; and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem accusing Biden of using the FEMA fund to house undocumented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}