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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.

A legal and environmental firestorm is growing around Florida’s controversial migrant detention center — dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” — under construction at the remote Dade‑Collier airstrip in the Everglades.