The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) uncovered buried landmines across the grounds of Alligator Alcatraz during a landscape survey Monday morning, according to a White Hat source.
As previously reported, the Trump administration and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis green-lit White Hats to convert the former ICE detention center into a Deep State internment camp. The Department of Homeland Security publicly claimed it was shuttering operations and relocating detainees because the remote Swampland facility had become too costly to maintain. While cost was a factor, sources say DHS had a deeper motive: private contractor Critical Response Strategies, which oversaw security, suffered repeated lapses that allowed detainee escape attempts and violent assaults on staff. To avoid looking incompetent, the administration kept those incidents out of public records.
Last week, USACE geologists and engineers arrived to assess the feasibility of digging a moat between the inner and outer fences that would encircle the 24,960-acre property. The planned moat would be stocked with hungry alligators and venomous Florida cottonmouths.
While using total stations, theodolites, and RTK GPS receivers to map property boundaries, a civil engineer spotted the tip of an M16 anti-personnel mine sticking out of the dirt near the facility’s airstrip. He stopped short of stepping on it, avoiding what could have been a fatal or dismembering blast. The survey was immediately suspended pending the arrival of combat engineers and explosive ordnance disposal teams.
The following day, a combat engineer unit from Fort Bragg and EOD specialists from Fort Gregg-Adams swept the site. They located and safely disarmed 34 anti-personnel mines that had been planted after DHS and Critical Response Strategies departed.
“We’ve spoken with Trump, DeSantis, DHS, and CRS officials,” the source said. “None of them, to their knowledge, authorized or knew about any mines being buried. And that tracks—several of the devices were placed in spots staff would have routinely walked. The logical conclusion is that they went in after everyone left.”
When DHS and the contractor pulled out, they stripped the site of infrastructure, including all surveillance cameras that might have captured who planted the explosives.
“Whoever did this knew exactly what they were doing and waited for the right window,” the source continued. “The Deep State doesn’t want its people locked up here. But they’re callous enough to risk blowing their own people—and ours—to pieces to prevent it.”
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