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Lawmakers visit ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ after being blocked

Florida lawmakers are touring a controversial immigration detention center in the Everglades. The facility, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," was rapidly built on a remote airstrip and houses 3,000 detainees.

CNN on MSN · 12h

Florida lawmakers allowed into ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ say detainees packed into cages

Deep in the hazardous and ecologically fragile Everglades, hundreds of migrants are confined in cages in a makeshift tent detention facility Florida’s Republican governor calls “safe and secure” and Democratic lawmakers call “inhumane.

Miami Herald on MSN · 12h

Lawmakers visited Alligator Alcatraz. Here’s what they say they saw and learned

Democrats also focused on what they said they learned at the facility: They said officials clarified repeatedly that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is “calling the shots” at the detention center — an open question after the agency’s acting deputy associate director of enforcement and removal operations downplayed federal involvement.

Florida Politics15d

Senate Democrats blast ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ as dangerous political stunt

Senate Democratic Leader Lori Berman dismissed the center as an “alliterative, cruel publicity stunt.” And as environmental ...

5dOpinion

Editorial: A tour of depravity in the Everglades

The savage, uncivilized imagery and tactics used by the state and federal governments to promote the so-called Alligator ...

Daily Express US on MSN11d

Inside Alligator Alcatraz: Trump's US migrant detention center with 'natural predators'

The Trump administration has officially finished building its "Alligator Alcatraz" and is set to open on Tuesday, with ...

‘Alligator Alcatraz’ open for business with arrival of its first detainees

Florida state Attorney General James Uthmeier confirmed the arrival of detainees to “Alligator Alcatraz,” the new immigration ...

USA Today19d

What is 'Alligator Alcatraz'? Detention center to open in Florida

A new migrant detention facility officials are calling "Alligator Alcatraz" is slated to open in Florida's Everglades next month, according to Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier. The ...

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Controversial "Alligator Alcatraz" detention facility days away from ...

Protesters gathered outside "Alligator Alcatraz" this weekend in the Everglades 02:07. A controversial immigration detention center being constructed in the Everglades is just days away from ...

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