"If somebody were to get out, there's nowhere to run, nowhere to hide — only the alligators and pythons are waiting," Uthmeier told "Fox Business."

Uthmeier said the detention center could be up and running in 30 to 60 days once construction starts. He compared it to the former maximum security prison on Alcatraz Island off the coast of San Francisco. Trump has called for reopening the prison for “America’s most ruthless and violent offenders.”

Florida’s attorney general is proposing a new site in the Everglades to hold immigrants who entered the United States illegally that he’s calling “Alligator Alcatraz.”