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Critics have condemned the detention facility and what they call the state’s apparent reliance on alligators as a security ...
Florida and federal officials announced the state will build a new immigration detention facility dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" in the Everglades, and because the facility will be partly funded by the ...
A massive immigrant detention camp nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz" will open in early July at an abandoned airfield in the ...
"We will stay on the ground for as long as we're needed and at the direction of Governor DeSantis," a spokeswoman said.
The state says the site will help relieve overcrowded county jails, but environmental advocates and tribal leaders are pushing back.
Florida’s recently appointed attorney general, James Uthmeier, announced that he had a pretty snazzy idea: Build the state’s ...
Called "Alligator Alcatraz" by state officials, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday during a stop in Boca Raton that the facility ...
The governor’s office said no vegetation will be removed, no paving nor permanent construction. Environmental groups say to ...
Florida’s familiar logistics of temporary mass housing is well underway at an old air strip in the Florida Everglades, with ...
At a news conference in Boca Raton on Thursday, he also pushed back against environmentalists and immigration advocates ...
On Wednesday, dozens of trucks were seen entering the Dade-Collier airstrip, where Gov. DeSantis ordered emergency construction to speed up deportations.
What has been dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” the state-built migrant processing center in the Everglades, seems to be almost complete.