California Dems brace for Bondi, Burgum to visit Alcatraz Politico AG Pam Bondi in San Francisco visiting Alcatraz to announce Trump admin’s reopening plans as Nancy Pelosi blasts ‘stupidest’ idea ABC7 San Francisco Feds reportedly will announce plan to reopen Alcatraz as a prison NBC Bay Area California officials slam Trump’s proposal to reopen Alcatraz ahead of federal officials’ reported visit KTVU Trump sends …
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AG Pam Bondi in San Francisco visiting Alcatraz to announce Trump admin’s reopening plans as Nancy Pelosi blasts ‘stupidest’ idea
SAN FRANCISCO — U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum are in San Francisco visiting Alcatraz Thursday morning and are expected to announce plans to reopen the federal penitentiary. Back in May, President Trump started talking about reopening the site as a federal prison. Congress is expected to introduce a bill to end environmental protections for Alcatraz …
Read More »Inside ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ detainees report relentless mosquitoes, limited water – The Washington Post
Inside ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ detainees report relentless mosquitoes, limited water The Washington Post The Chaotic Early Days Inside Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center The New York Times Florida lawmaker Anna Eskamani on her ‘horrific’ visit to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention center WBUR ‘A black hole’: Attorneys say they still can’t reach clients in Alligator Alcatraz Miami Herald Florida environmentalists take fight against ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ to courts WPLG …
Read More »The Chaotic Early Days Inside Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center – The New York Times
The Chaotic Early Days Inside Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center The New York Times Florida lawmaker Anna Eskamani on her ‘horrific’ visit to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention center WBUR ‘A black hole’: Attorneys say they still can’t reach clients in Alligator Alcatraz Miami Herald “Gator Grift”: Hundreds Caged in Inhumane Conditions with No Due Process at Florida Immigrant Jail Democracy Now! The Miccosukee Tribe of …
Read More »Florida lawmaker Anna Eskamani on her ‘horrific’ visit to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention center
Hundreds of immigrants with no criminal charges are being held at a state-run immigration detention camp in the Florida Everglades that President Trump and his allies have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” according to records obtained by the Miami Herald and the Tampa Bay Times. Even before the facility opened earlier this month, the site and the conditions within it have been …
Read More »Florida is fronting the $450M cost of Alligator Alcatraz – a legal scholar explains what we still don’t know about the detainees
The state of Florida has opened a migrant detention center in the Everglades. Its official name is Alligator Alcatraz, a reference to the former maximum security federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay. While touring Alligator Alcatraz on July 1, 2025, President Donald Trump said, “This facility will house some of the menacing migrants, some of the most vicious people on …
Read More »Rep. Maxwell Frost Shares Ominous Findings From ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Visit
Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) is sounding the alarm over what he calls the “horrible” conditions at Florida’s new immigrant detention center, which members of President Donald Trump’s administration have callously promoted and dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.” Frost and other state lawmakers were given a guided tour Saturday. Last week, they were denied access to the facility, leading them to sue Republican …
Read More »Contributor: Alligator Alcatraz, the concentration camp in Florida, is a national disgrace
The first detainees have started arriving at Alligator Alcatraz, Florida’s immigrant detention center in the Everglades. The facility went up on a former airstrip in eight days and will have an initial capacity of 3,000 detainees. Florida’s Republican state Atty. Gen. James Uthmeier, the driving force behind the project, posted on X recently that the center “will be checking in …
Read More »Hundreds of detainees with no criminal charges sent to Trump’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ | Florida
The notorious new “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration jail in the Florida Everglades contains hundreds of detainees with no criminal records or charges, it was disclosed on Sunday, as lawmakers decried “inhumane” conditions inside after touring the facility. Donald Trump has insisted that the remote camp in swamp land populated by pythons and alligators was reserved for immigrants who were “deranged psychopaths” …
Read More »Some Alligator Alcatraz detainees have no criminal record, list shows – Tampa Bay Times
Some Alligator Alcatraz detainees have no criminal record, list shows Tampa Bay Times Florida lawmakers allowed into ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ say detainees packed into cages CNN Lawmakers tour Florida’s new detention center in the Everglades The Washington Post Republicans and Democrats visited ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ for the first time. Here’s what they saw. Politico Florida officials deny accusations of inhumane conditions at Alligator Alcatraz CBS News Source …
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