Does a viral image really show Hulk Hogan posing in front of caged migrants at "Alligator Alcatraz"? No, that's not true: The image is composed of two different pictures. One showed a Border Patrol facility in Texas in 2019 and the other showed a promotional picture of Hulk Hogan from 2014.
The image originally appeared in an Instagram post (archived here) on July 6, 2025 captioned:
Remember everyone who proudly poses in front of these concentration camps, destroying so many lives.
Originally the image looked like this:
(Image source: @romanfamilystrong on Instagram)
But soon versions started circulating online cropped down to just the photo and claiming to show Hogan posing in front of migrants at "Alligator Alcatraz":
(Image source: cropped version of image on @romanfamilystrong on Instagram)
However the background image was described on Wikimedia (archived here) as:
Overcrowding of families observed by OIG on June 10, 2019, at Border Patrol's McAllen, TX, Station.
(Image source: Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
The other image already appeared on the website of photographer Luis Santana in 2014 (archived here).
He reposted it on his Instagram account (archived here) on the occasion of Hogan passing away in 2025:
