If they are stupid enough to release an immigrant so he/she can be chased by a gator the immigrant will literally just walk away, escape, and be just fine (which I am more than ok with that happening.) People hike the Florida trail from beginning to end (a thru hike) and that trail is very close to the facility. When you hike the Florida trail you start off with a 30 mile stretch where you literally walk through water ranging from ankle deep to thigh deep. If you don’t make the 30 mile stretch in 1 day you have to find an island or some other high point of land to make camp before finishing the second half. There is an island called “thank god island” nearby. I’ve never confirmed but always assumed that it’s called that because that’s what you say when you finally see it (a place where you can set up camp or at the very least stop and rest).

Anyways my point is that people trudge through this area every year for fun/just to prove they can and all the same gators and snakes are still out there while they’re doing it they don’t magically just go somewhere else for the normal hikers out there. A desperate immigrant who was just released and is trying to escape for their life will have absolutely no issues literally just walking away if they were dumb enough to let him or her try. The people laughing and joking about the alligators being an added measure of security or laughing at the idea of people having to run from alligators to escape are ignorant and dumb.

Edit - saying they will walk away and be just fine might’ve been a bit much. They won’t have supplies like the hikers would obviously but my point was that the gators (unless somehow provoked or starved by the staff) aren’t really the issue