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Beds are seen inside a migrant detention center, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” located at the site of the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, in Ochopee, Florida on July 1, 2025. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images MIAMI — The immigration detention center in Florida’s Everglades that officials have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” soon will …

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A top Florida official says the controversial state-run immigration detention facility in the Everglades will likely be empty in a matter of days, even as Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration and the federal government fight a judge’s order to shutter the facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” by late October. That’s according to an email exchange shared with …

Mason, Tennessee — The small West Tennessee town of Mason, just 2 square miles in size, is home to about 1,000 people. But its residents are now divided by what a new immigration detention facility will mean for the area.  Shannon Whitfield has lived in Mason for 13 years. Earlier this month, Mason’s town leaders voted to reopen a shuttered …

Jokey Names for Detention Centers Face Criticism for Insensitivity  The New York Times Nebraska Guard members helping ICE volunteered, will be sent across state  Nebraska Examiner Nebraska bishop concerned about ‘Cornhusker Clink’ for detainees  National Catholic Reporter Local News: Young business owner rallies local response (8/21/25)  McCook Gazette NE lawmakers and residents divided over ‘Cornhusker Clink’  KHGI Source link

The key to the Trump administration’s rapid detention ramp-up? Republican governors.  Politico A last lifeline in ‘detention alley’  The Washington Post Immigrant detentions soar 50% to a record under Trump  Axios Speak Out: Demand Humane Treatment in Immigration Detention  Grand Canyon Synod of the ELCA The Legal Labyrinth of Immigrant Detention  The Regulatory Review Source link

The Trump administration opened an immigrant detention site at a former Japanese internment camp in Texas, leading to condemnation from politicians, advocacy groups, and descendants of survivors of the WWII-era program. Fort Bliss, a military base headquartered in El Paso, is slated to be the site of the largest federal detention center in the country. It currently holds around 1,000 …

Judge Orders ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center in Florida to Shut Down for Now  The New York Times Florida ordered to dismantle Alligator Alcatraz over environmental impact  The Washington Post Judge bars Florida from bringing more detainees to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’  Politico Florida must stop expanding ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration center, judge says  AP News The future of Alligator Alcatraz hangs on one big question  CNN Source link

The ACLU called Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s continued detention of Atlanta-area journalist Mario Guevara an act of retaliation for his reporting on immigration raids, according to a federal petition filed on Thursday. Guevara, a Salvadorian immigrant who has been in the United States for more than 20 years, was arrested on 14 June by a police officer in suburban Atlanta …

Japanese American groups criticized the construction of a new immigrant detention center in Texas at a military base that was used during World War II to imprison people of Japanese descent. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center at Fort Bliss in El Paso, which opened this past weekend, will be able to hold as many as 5,000 detainees upon …

Nebraska Republican Gov. Jim Pillen announced plans Tuesday for an immigration detention center in a farming area in the state’s southwest corner as President Trump’s administration races to expand the infrastructure necessary for increasing deportations. Pillen said he and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had agreed to use an existing minimum security prison work camp in rural McCook to house …