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Officials in Florida diverted crucial disaster preparedness and response resources to support the hasty construction of the so-called Alligator Alcatraz migrant detention jail by the Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, a newly published report has claimed. Some of the $20m in contracts analyzed by Talking Points Memo (TPM) before they inexplicably disappeared from the Florida department of financial services website went …

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 …

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 …

Immigrants being held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers in at least seven states are complaining of hunger, food shortages and spoiled food, detainees and immigration advocates say. They say some detainees have gotten sick; others say they have lost weight. In one facility, an incident involving detainees reportedly broke out in part because of food. The food problems …

Noem defends conditions at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention facility  The Hill Trump officials deflect from “Alligator Alcatraz” scrutiny by pointing fingers at Biden  Axios Homeland Security’s Noem says in talks with five Republican-led states to build detention site  Reuters Five States in Talks for Detention Centers Like ‘Alligator Alcatraz’—Noem  Newsweek Kristi Noem touts Alligator Alcatraz, immigration arrests in Tampa  Tampa Bay Times Source link