Alaska quips about opening ‘bear alcatraz’ as WH chief of staff urges republican states to work with DHS to build more detention facilities

Alaska has joked about setting up a “Bear Alcatraz” to help the Trump administration detain more illegal migrants — as the White House urged Republican states to work with the feds to build similar detention facilities across the country.

The state quipped about the plan just days after Florida offered to build a massive new immigration detention center — dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” — to help house hundreds of illegal migrants.

“We don’t have alligators, but we have lots of bears,” the state of Alaska said in a statement to Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle.”

However, the Last Frontier — which President Trump won in the 2024 election with 55% of the votes — said there were no earnest plans currently in place for “an Alaska version of Alligator Alcatraz.”

It came as White House chief of staff Stephen Miller called on the governors of GOP states to offer up similar spaces to help the Trump administration crackdown on illegal immigration.

“Every governor of a red state, if you are watching tonight: Pick up the phone, call DHS, work with us to build facilities in your state so we can get the illegals and criminals out,” he told the network.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier kickstarted the push last month when he proposed building a new detention center — surrounded by alligators and pythons — on a 39-square-mile plot of land.

“The government tasked state leaders to identify places for new temporary detention facilities,” the attorney general said at the time.

“I think this is the best one. As I call it, alligator Alcatraz.”

“Alligator Alcatraz, we’re ready to go,” he added.