The new immigration detention center at an isolated airstrip in the Florida Everglades that President Donald Trump visited was heralded by Republicans as a potential model for other states to aggressively ramp up detention and deportation efforts.

Democratic lawmakers condemned the facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” by Trump loyalists as crowded, unsanitary and bug-infested.

President Trump toured a new immigration detention center in South Florida that state officials are calling "Alligator Alcatraz."