Reporting from Alligator Alcatraz: Citizens react as trucks deliver supplies, fill dirt

Note to readers: The Naples Daily News and The News-Press have a reporter and photographer on the ground today (June 26) in the Everglades at the location of what is being referred to as Alligator Alcatraz − an abandoned airport being a temporary migrant detention facility.

Semi trucks and others vehicles are pulling into the Alligator Alcatraz site at the edge of Everglades National Park today (June 26).

Traffic was heavy, and passing drivers were staring as they passed the notorious site, which is going to house the 1,000 or so of the nation’s most dangerous and violent immigrants…

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