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"Common decency requires that we remember the individuals being detained," Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski said in a statement.
In a newly filed legal notice, environmental groups accused the government agencies of ignoring even more environmental regulations while building and opening Alligator Alcatraz, despite the governor’s pledge to have “zero impacts” on the Everglades.
Illegal immigrants picked up by state troopers during traffic stops this week are among the first to be moved into “Alligator Alcatraz,” a new state-run federal detention facility in the Everglades. In the six hours with the Florida Highway Patrol around southeastern Florida,
Five Florida state lawmakers who were denied access to a new immigration detention center in the Everglades are suing Gov. Ron DeSantis.
The mayor's request comes as state and federal lawmakers prepare to tour the remote facility this weekend, amid growing scrutiny over its conditions.
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DarkSky International in 2016 designated Florida’s Big Cypress National Preserve as the nation’s first preserve to achieve “dark sky” status.
Five Florida Democratic lawmakers are suing Gov. DeSantis over being denied entry into the immigration detention facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.” State Sen. Shevrin Jones (D-FL) joins Alex Witt to detail complaints of conditions received by detainees.
Reached for comment on Navarro calling Alligator Alcatraz tourists "racist" and "horrible human" beings, the White House reacted with an incendiary statement.