OCHOPEE, Fla. (AP) — Deportation flights from the remote Everglades immigration lockup known as “Alligator Alcatraz” began in the past few days, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday. The flights operated by the Department of Homeland Security have transferred about 100 detainees from the immigration detention center to other countries, said DeSantis, who expects that number to increase soon. “I …
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First Deportation Flights Depart From Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ – The New York Times
First Deportation Flights Depart From Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ The New York Times DHS has begun flying migrants out of Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ DeSantis announces Fox News Florida Gov. DeSantis speaks at Alligator Alcatraz, Friday morning Fox4Now.com 100 people ‘fully deported’ from ‘Alligator Alcatraz’: DeSantis NewsNation Deportation flights from ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ have begun CNN Source link
Read More »Contracts reveal the big business of building and operating Alligator Alcatraz – Miami Herald
Contracts reveal the big business of building and operating Alligator Alcatraz Miami Herald Detainee accounts of Alligator Alcatraz conditions: Fungus, mosquitoes and lack of food NBC News Groups Sue Trump Administration Over Lack of Access to Counsel for People Held at Florida’s Notorious Everglades Immigration Detention Center American Civil Liberties Union Florida signs $245 million in contracts for ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Here’s a look …
Read More »Florida official says lawsuit to halt ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ filed in wrong court
Florida’s top emergency official asked a federal judge on Monday to resist a request by environmentalists to halt an immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” in the middle of the Florida Everglades because their lawsuit was filed in the wrong jurisdiction. Even though the property is owned by Miami-Dade County, Florida’s southern district is the wrong venue for the …
Read More »The right wing turned the inhumane Alligator Alcatraz prison into a meme
Alligator Alcatraz, Florida’s hastily built, $225 million-and-counting immigrant detention facility in the Everglades, is both a de facto concentration camp and a right-wing meme. President Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters are willing to excuse — or are in some cases reveling in — allegations of inhumane treatment at the facility: worms in food, floors flooded with fecal water, fluorescent lights …
Read More »Gov. DeSantis blindsided Florida county officials with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ plans, emails show
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration left many local officials in the dark about the immigration detention center that rose from an isolated airstrip in the Everglades, emails obtained by The Associated Press show, while relying on an executive order to seize the land, hire contractors and bypass laws and regulations. The emails show that local officials …
Read More »Emails show DeSantis administration left county officials in the dark about ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration left many local officials in the dark about the immigration detention center that rose from an isolated airstrip in the Everglades, emails obtained by The Associated Press show, while relying on an executive order to seize the land, hire contractors and bypass laws and regulations. The emails show that local officials …
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 …
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