A state-run detention facility for migrants has opened in the Florida Everglades. Alligator Alcatraz - that is the official name - was assembled in eight days and opened on July 1. President Donald Trump visited the remote site on opening day, built at an old runway near the Miami-Dade and Collier county line.

President Donald Trump is visiting Alligator Alcatraz, the temporary migrant detention center in Florida's Everglades, on July 1.

Trump is celebrating — and even joking about — the harsh conditions of the controversial immigration detention facility in Florida.