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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Trump Tours 'Alligator Alcatraz' but Says Farmers Need a Deportation Pass

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump visits a new immigration detention site in Florida dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” while saying more such facilities are needed to carry out his mass-deportation plan. Yet the president also says that farmers, and perhaps other businesses, need a "temporary pass" system that would let them keep reliable migrant workers who might be in the country illegally. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.0

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Corporate megastores will make more money and you pay the price.

0:22.0

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guard your card.com.

0:32.6

From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

0:38.6

President Trump tours a new Florida immigration detention facility that his allies have dubbed

0:44.8

Alligator Alcatraz. Meantime, he says the White House is working on a new temporary

0:49.8

pass for migrant farm workers. Welcome him, Kyle Peterson, with the Wall Street Journal.

0:56.9

We're joined today by my colleagues, editorial board member Manet Uquay-Brua, and columnist Alicia

1:03.1

Finley. An airport about 40 miles west of Miami in the Everglades has now been transformed

1:09.9

into a tent city that officials are saying

1:12.9

could house up to 5,000 migrants, according to some reports. Governor Ronda Santis stressed that

1:19.8

this would alleviate burdens on state law enforcement agencies, jails, also stressing that the facility

1:27.2

would be air-conditioned 24-7.

1:30.2

They're photos circulating that show the inside of these tents, metal bunk beds in detention areas enclosed by chain-link fence.

1:39.2

Let's listen to President Trump, who toured this site during an immigration roundtable on Tuesday.

1:44.8

Well, I think we'd like to see them in many states, really, many states.

1:49.4

This one, I know Ron's doing a second one, at least a second one, and probably a couple of more.

1:55.3

And, you know, at some point, they might morph into a system where you're going to keep it for a long time.

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