Migrants would need to know ‘how to run away from an alligator’, says Trump

President Donald Trump (Mark Schiefelbein/AP)

Donald Trump is aiming to turn a new immigration detention centre into a symbol of his border crackdown when he visits the site in a remote area of the Florida Everglades.

The facility, assembled on a remote airstrip with tents and trailers that are normally used after a natural disaster, has been given the nickname Alligator Alcatraz, a moniker that has alarmed immigrant activists but appeals to the Republican president’s aggressive approach to deportations.