Florida Sen. Blaise Ingoglia wore a University of Florida golf polo with an alligator icon to a guided tour of Alligator Alcatraz on Saturday in Collier County.

People held at the brand new Florida immigration detention center that officials have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” say worms turn up in the food, toilets don’t flush and floors flood with fecal waste.

A man granted protection under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program has been sent to a newly opened detention center in the Everglades, known as Alligator Alcatraz, which was designed to hold illegal immigrants awaiting deportation.

DarkSky International in 2016 designated Florida’s Big Cypress National Preserve as the nation’s first preserve to achieve “dark sky” status.

The unbelievable cruelty of the DeSantis and Trump Administrations towards hard working, honest, and law abiding Hispanic, Haitian, and other foreign born residents of this state needs to stop,” Justin Mendoza-Routt,

As Florida moved quickly to build an immigration detention facility in the Everglades, some critics likened the site to a concentration camp. Some TikTok videos attempted to lend credence to the analogy: Alligator Alcatraz, they said, is getting incinerators.

The Department of Homeland Security is denying reports of improper living conditions for detainees at Alligator Alcatraz.

Detainees at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” report being relentlessly swarmed by mosquitoes in the Everglades-based illegal immigration detention facility.