The state of South Carolina is considering following in Florida’s footsteps and building an “Alligator Alcatraz”-like migrant detention facility of its own.

The disclosure came in response to the Department of Homeland Security director, Kristi Noem, saying that other states had approached her office expressing interest in setting up similar facilities to the one recently opened in the Everglades.

“We’ve had several other states that are actually using Alligator Alcatraz as a model for how they can partner with us,” Ms. Noem said to reporters during a recent press conference. “I’m having ongoing conversations with five other governors about facilities that they may have.”

One of those governors is the Palmetto State’s Henry McMaster.

“South Carolina’s law enforcement and National Guard continue to collaborate and participate with federal officials on illegal immigration enforcement and deportation,” a spokesman for the governor’s office, Brandon Charochak, said in a statement to the Post and Courier. “Governor McMaster has directed state officials to continue exploring how the Palmetto State’s unique assets and resources can be utilized to provide additional and enhanced support in the weeks and months to come.”

The comments from Mr. McMaster’s office come after Mr. Trump’s policy architect, Stephen Miller, pressed Republican governors to tap federal dollars from a new spending package, which nearly quadruples the DHS’s budget for detention to approximately $45 billion, to open facilities in their states.

“We want every governor of a red state, and if you are watching tonight: Pick up the phone, call DHS, work with us to build facilities in your state,” he said earlier this month on Fox News.

Other politicians from the state have also advocated for South Carolina to be the next to have a holding facility for migrants. Lieutenant Governor Pamela Evette, who will be running for governor in 2026, said in a post on X that she supported DHS’s efforts and had even suggested a name for a new facility that would be built in the state.

“‘Palmetto Pen’ sounds like a good place to start,” she said.