Homeland Security's Noem says in talks with five Republican-led states to build detention site
'We've had several other states that are actually using Alligator Alcatraz as a model for how they can partner with us,' Noem told a press conference in Florida.
She declined to name the states. 'Alligator Alcatraz' is a remote migrant detention center, which sits some 37 miles (60 km) from Miami in a vast subtropical wetland teeming with alligators, crocodiles and pythons.
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