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Border chest Tom Homan Criticizes lawmakers for criticizing the conditions of the latest US detention center, “Crocodile Orcart”, while keeping “silence” on the number of immigrant deaths led by former President Joe Biden.
The Alligator Alcatraz was built in the Alligator Everglades in Florida Everglades to stop escapists, reviewed in terms of their conditions, distant locations and potential environmental impacts. Critics question whether the location is safe, humane or suitable for long-term detention.
However, Homan said the center still complies with U.S. immigration and customs enforcement guidelines and maintains the “highest” standards in the industry.
“Detainees complain about detention conditions,” Homan said during a CNN “Coalition Status” appearance on Sunday. “You can simply go to ICE.gov and see the ICE’s detention standards. They have the highest detention standards in the industry, but these same MPs complained about ‘crocodile crocodile alcatraz.'”
DEM lawmakers check the detention center of “Crocodile Alcatraz” using safety issues as an example
The White House “Border Tsar” Tom Homan spoke at a daily briefing held in Washington, DC on April 28, 2025. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Image)
Homan argued that when the Biden administration’s immigration death toll surged, lawmakers condemning the facility clearly did not.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection Data, Fox News has obtained 856 immigrants Death, attempting to cross the southern border in fiscal 2022, the highest number recorded at that time.
“Under the Biden administration, you don’t see the people they complain about being held in Border Patrol parking lots surrounded by fences and stuffy heat,” Homan said. “They overlooked four years of open borders, historical immigrants died, historical Americans died of fentanyl, historical women and children were trafficked.”
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On July 1, 2025, the bed was seen in an immigration detention center called “Crocodile Alcatraz”. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
The border tsar claims that Biden’s presidency – The crisis he said was not severely criticized – and asserted that the government under Donald Trump did more to find these kids.
“You haven’t heard about about 500,000 children being trafficked in the country, and they can’t find 300,000 people,” Homan said. “This administration president is looking for thousands of children.”
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Worker installs a permanent crocodile wolf symbol. The facility is in the Florida Everglades, 36 miles west of the Miami Central Business District in Collier County, Florida on Thursday, July 3, 2025. (Getty Image)
Homan said the MP who failed to raise the strong Border security In the crisis under the Biden administration, “silence is still maintained because they are complicit.”
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“If we don’t have border security, this country can’t have a strong national security,” Homan said. “We have to know who is coming in, and where it comes from. But they keep silent and keep feeding the American people.”
Emma Colton of Fox News contributed to the report.

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