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Detainees report alleged uprising at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’: ‘A lot of people have bled’ | US immigration

Detainees report alleged uprising at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’: ‘A lot of people have bled’ | US immigration

Guards at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration jail deployed teargas and engaged in a mass beating of detainees to quell a mini-uprising, it was reported on Friday. The allegations, made by at least three detainees in phone calls to Miami’s Spanish language news channel Noticias 23, come as authorities race to empty the camp in compliance with a judge’s order to …

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