President Donald Trump visited the Everglades on Tuesday, July 2 for the opening of Florida’s so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” ICE detention center. Outside, activists and environmentalists continued their calls for the controversial immigrant detention center to stop construction while groupies of the president (including pardoned former leader of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio) meandered about, too.

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A Trump supporter outside the Florida Everglades’ so-called ‘Alligator Alcatraz on July 1, 2025. Credit: Photo by Dave Decker
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Protestors in the Florida Everglades on July 1, 2025. Credit: Photo by Dave Decker
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Protesters outside the July 2 opening of Florida’s so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” ICE detention center. Credit: Photo by Dave Decker
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Law enforcement outside the Florida Everglades immigrant detention center on July 2, 2025. Credit: Photo by Dave Decker
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Dave Decker is a songwriter and photographer living in Tampa Bay.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...