airstrip

Via a Middle East investment company, Assets Group, the Qataris are currently building an exclusive, 40-villa luxury resort there, with an upgraded concrete airstrip capable of receiving executive jets, far from prying eyes.

But it's not just on airstrips that kites can be dangerous.

Because Alligator Alcatraz is housed near an airstrip, he said the facility is intended to facilitate quick deportations.

The facility went up on a former airstrip in eight days and will have an initial capacity of 3,000 detainees.

Located on a 39-square-mile airstrip in the middle of the Everglades and surrounded by wetlands inhabited by alligators, pythons, and crocodiles, the remote location is what most appeals to officials.