For those of you following the "Alligator Alcatraz" story, you may wonder why there's this huge abandoned airport in the middle of the Everglades. This was the partially constructed Miami Jetport, meant to allow the landing of SSTs (remember them?). Planes flying at supersonic speeds, causing sonic booms, would have been unacceptable in urban areas. So they were building this huge airport way out west of Miami, halfway to Naples on the Gulf Coast. But the environmental impact would have been hugely destructive, and growing opposition forcing the abandonment of the project in 1970.
But the fact that it's still out there seems to attract people with ideas on what to do with the land from time to time. And now the Trump administration is building this huge "temporary" detention center on the land, after the idea was suggested by a DeSantis administration official.
	
	
		
			
				
			
			
				
				A brief history of the land where Florida officials and the federal government are building "Alligator Alcatraz."
				
					
						
							 
						
					
					www.cbsnews.com