The meeting will address a proposal for corrections officers to transport ICE detainees from the Orange County Jail to immigration facilities, including “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Everglades. Elected officials and immigration rights advocates are planning to speak about Orange County’s involvement with ICE.

Kona Ice, restaurants explain, apologize after being seen at Alligator Alcatraz, the new immigration processing center in the Everglades.

If adopted by the county commission Tuesday, an amended agreement with the federal government would authorize county correctional officers to transport immigration detainees at the request of ICE.

ICE received additional funding from President Trump's "big, beautiful bill," and Alligator Alcatraz began operating.

The creation and celebration of "Alligator Alcatraz," the hastily built detention center in the heart of mosquito-infested Florida swampland, marks a new dehumanizing low in the Trump administration's indiscriminate and cruel posture toward immigrants.

“ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ” IS JUST THE LATEST in a series of cruel spectacles that mark Trump’s deportation and detention efforts. Collectively, they are contributing to a turn in public opinion.

Alligator Alcatraz’ is visual policy aimed to stage terror as a message while making Donald Trump’s authoritarian and fascist politics a material reality.

Without permanent structures, electricity or running water, logistical headaches have emerged at “Alligator Alcatraz.”