At the end of June 2025, a picture of an allegedly recently built institution for illegal migrants - a complex of buildings surrounded by a moat with alligators, in the middle of the forest, spread over the network. We checked the authenticity of this picture.
On June 29, Telegram channels published news about the opening of a new center for temporary detention of illegal migrants in the United States and accompanied these posts with a photograph of this building. The picture shows four large buildings located in the middle of the forest and surrounded by a moat, in which, if you look closely, you can see floating alligators. It is clarified that they were launched specially to ensure the safety of the institution. Some users posted the video - on it to the music of the photo center is gradually replaced by shots with ponds that are teeming with these reptiles.
A photo or video in which it was used was published by Telegram channels "The ax live"(766,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Sanya in Florida"(513 000),"Insider UA"(429 000),"Dmitry Nicotin"(338 000),"The goat screamed"(328 000),"KB"(244,000) and others.
The fight against illegal migration was One of the key Donald Trump's election promises. After his election, the president in the United States significantly Tighted migration legislation - in particular, sharply Festivable Raides of the immigration and customs police (ICE). During these raids, thousands of people were detained whose stay in the country considered illegal or dangerous. The actions of the authorities called Protests in Los Angeles, subsequently spread to other large cities of the United States.
To place detained migrants, in different states they began to build temporary centers. June 19 Prosecutor General Florida James Utmeier Placed On his page in the X video, which announced plans to build a camp under the unofficial name "Alligator Alcatraz", which referred to the famous prison In San Francisco. June 24 Information Confirmed in the US Department of Internal Security, and a week later to open a new center Profit Trump and head of the department Christie Noem. It was the news about the upcoming discovery that spread through Telegram channels and social networks along with the alleged picture of the camp.
Although the opening of the center was widely covered by the American media, not a single large and authoritative edition posted a picture that was dispersed through the Russian-speaking Telegram channels. Families removed from the drone, published by journalists, are very different from the viral image. It does not coincide with many Photos From the inside: they can see the ranks of two -tier tents surrounded by walls from the grid.
The media reports that the new temporary content complex Located Near the take-off and landing strip of the unfinished Airport, Deid Collier, which had previously been used as a training. The camp itself consists of converted trailers, which is also clearly visible in the photo and video in the media reports, and not from four separate buildings, as in a viral image.
The reports of the wide moat surrounding the migration center are also doubtful. On the one hand, the name "Alligator Alcatraz" was not chosen by chance - by words Utmayer, the marshy area around is teeming with alligators and pythons, which will save on ensuring the safety of the camp around the perimeter. After visiting the Trump migration center declaredthat the detainees who want to escape will have to learn to run away from the alligator. However, authoritative sources do not say that they specially dug a moat around the camp and launched reptiles into it. The artificial reservoir is not visible in the reports of the American media. Finally, the area with a viral photo does not coincide with satellite pictures.
The viral image itself also looks strange. In the picture, not a single road leading to the center is visible, and animals floating in water are too large for alligators. In addition, lighting and trees surrounding buildings look unnatural. All this can say that the photograph was generated by a neural network. The HIVE MODRENTION service to identify such content appreciated the likelihood that the photo was created by AI at 99.9%.
For the first time, this is an image with the signature that this is what the Alligator Alcatrase looks like, appeared on the social network X. The earliest post that was found “verified” was Placed On the page @nickadamsinusa on June 28 at 03:00 Moscow time, now this publication has more than 4 million views. The user accompanied the picture with the words "" Alligator Alcatraz "looks beautiful," without specifying that it is generated by a neural network. Since then the camp was not yet open, probably the author of the publication only suggested how it would look. However, the photograph spread widely, and other users laid out it after the appearance of dozens of reports from the camp for detained migrants.
As for the video, it is also the first time appeared In the social network X - a little later than the generated photograph. User @dom_lucre published it on June 29 at 01:19 Moscow time. It was he who first said that the moat around the new Alcatrase was filled with alligators for all illegal migrants who dare to escape. This post was watched 4.6 million times.
Thus, although the temporary content center for migrants was really opened in Florida, and in its “advertising” constantly Mentioned Alligators, a photograph of the camp that was dispersed through Telegram channels is generated using AI.
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