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The Chaotic Early Days Inside Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center
Several immigrant detainees described high tension and anxiety at the remote, hastily constructed facility over a lack of ...
DeSantis: Camp Blanding ICE detention facility put on hold until Alligator Alcatraz fills up
Gov. DeSantis said he wants to avoid establishing a new detention facility at Camp Blanding for now to avoid it being ...
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DeSantis says he wants ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ to be filled before moving forward with Camp Blanding’s detention site plans
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said on Wednesday he wants the detention facility, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” to be at full ...
Local officials to address plans on ICE detainee pipeline to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
The meeting will address a proposal for corrections officers to transport ICE detainees from the Orange County Jail to ...
Alligator Alcatraz: Kona Ice, restaurants clarify after their trucks are seen at facility
Kona Ice, restaurants explain, apologize after being seen at Alligator Alcatraz, the new immigration processing center in the ...
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Jacksonville firm with $78 million ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ contract has obscure origins: The Tributary
A little-known consulting firm with ties to a prominent Jacksonville business leader landed a $78 million contract earlier this month to provide a raft of critical services at a pop-up immigration ...
Lawyers and Families Report Squalid Conditions and Lack of Legal Access at Alligator Alcatraz
Prisoners at Florida's newly opened immigrant detention center in the Everglades are suffering in squalid conditions and are cut off from legal access, according to attorneys, detainees, family ...
New ICE pact could have Orange jail staff driving immigrants to Alligator Alcatraz
If adopted by the county commission Tuesday, an amended agreement with the federal government would authorize county ...
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Frost Accuses Officials Behind 'Alligator Alcatraz' of Ethnic Cleansing
U.S. Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-FL) recently criticized "Alligator Alcatraz" during an appearance on MSNBC, claiming officials behind the illegal alien det ...
South Floridians line up outside ICE facility where Haitian woman died to protest Alligator Alcatraz, Trump's immigration policies
ICE received additional funding from President Trump's "big, beautiful bill," and Alligator Alcatraz began operating.
‘A black hole’: Attorneys say they still can’t reach clients in Alligator Alcatraz
I’ve called, I’ve emailed everybody and their grandmother and their grandmother’s sister. Nobody emails you back and nobody calls you back,” said one immigration attorney.
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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 ...