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Trump Tours Florida Immigration Facility at Dade-Collier Airport with DeSantis and Noem

July 1, 2025 · The White House · 0:11:03

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What happened

President Trump visited a new immigration facility at Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in Ochopee, Florida on July 1, 2025, according to the White House. Governor Ron DeSantis said the all-new facility was up and running in eight days and that it was built working with Secretary Kristi Noem and Homeland Security, as he stated it. The president called the land beautiful and secure, joked that alligators serve as bodyguards, and said the administration is setting records at the border, with no people coming through last month — zero — as he stated the figure.

DeSantis said Florida would also have 2,000 more beds at Camp Blanding, its National Guard site, and that Florida is the only state mandating state and local law-enforcement cooperation with ICE, which he said accounts for about 20 percent of immigration arrests nationwide on any given day, as he stated the figures. He urged other states not to let Florida be the only one, arguing self-deportation rises when people do not want to end up in such a facility, as he stated it. Secretary Noem said the department chose to partner directly with governors rather than vendors and asked every governor to do the same, as she stated it. The president said Louisiana and Alabama are among states doing it, as he stated it.

The visit also touched redistricting and legislation: DeSantis criticized the census apportionment and said his legislature would redistrict for 2026, the president predicted the bill under discussion would pass, and, asked about Elon Musk’s criticism of the bill, the president said DOGE would look at Musk and save a fortune, as he stated them.

Why it matters

The tour launches the state-run detention model the participants described — an eight-day build, 2,000 additional Camp Blanding beds, and a 20 percent Florida share of immigration arrests, as stated there — as a template the president urged other states to copy.

Scoreboard watch

DeSantis stated the facility was built in eight days with 2,000 more beds coming at Camp Blanding, as he stated the figures — checkable against subsequent facility and capacity reporting.

Sources: The White House, “President Trump Arrives Dade - Collier Training and Transition Airport, July 01, 2025”, 2025-07-01 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-07-01). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.