Trump visits 'Alligator Alcatraz' unveils ICE agents with bizarre alligator heads

The White House has released an bizarre AI-generated image of Donald Trump standing with three alligators in ICE caps, during his visit to a new migrant detention centre set amidst the reptile-infested marshes of the Florida Everglades.

On Tuesday, the US President toured 'Alligator Alcatraz', as it's been dubbed, and announced that it would soon process "handle the most menacing migrants, some of the most vicious people on the planet [....] the only way out, really, is deportation."

Initially conceived as a mega airport destined to be five times larger than JFK, the Dade-Collier location now morphs into a maximum-security penitentiary with expectations to house up to 5,000 migrants. Trump quipped that escapees would need to have skills to "know how to run away from an alligator".

James Uthmeier, Florida's attorney general and initial promoter of the facility said last month, "This is an old, virtually abandoned airport facility right in the middle of the Everglades. I call it: Alligator Alcatraz."

He hailed the site as an "efficient, low-cost opportunity" for a "temporary" holding ground. "You don't need to invest that much in the perimeter," he noted, reports the Mirror.

"If people get out, there's not much waiting for them other than alligators and pythons."

The White House has openly praised the location's isolation - approximately 50 miles west of Miami, swarming with pythons and alligators - to underscore that severe penalties await those who flout US immigration laws.

Mocking, Trump quipped about training migrants to dodge alligators after breaking out. "We're going to teach them how to run away from an alligator if they escape prison," he joked.

"Don't run in a straight line. Run like this," he demonstrated, tracing a zigzag pattern with his hand. "And you know what? Your chances go up about 1%."

He divulged intentions to replicate such facilities in "really, many states," proposing even to assign Florida National Guard troops as immigration judges, hastening deportations.

To some, the facility epitomises the administration's relentless drive to remove migrants deemed unauthorised to remain in the US. Conversely, detractors decry the project as a dehumanising spectacle of barbarity, potentially costing millions each year.

With capacity for 5,000 inmates, CNN reports an annual operational expense of $450m (£328m).