Future of Alligator Alcatraz hangs on 1 big question
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With Alligator Alcatraz running in the Everglades, the governor will turn an underused state prison into a second facility for those awaiting deportation.
Florida's DeSantis unveils new immigration detention center dubbed 'Deportation Depot' to expand deportations.
Immigration attorneys and advocates are raising concerns about what they say are inhumane conditions at the "Alligator Alcatraz" migrant detention center.
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New York Magazine on MSN‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Is Worse Than You Realize
Erected on an abandoned airstrip known as the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, the temporary tent city was thrown together in just eight days after Florida authorities presented the federal government with a “marketing pitch” inspired by President Donald Trump longing for the reopening of the original Alcatraz.
The facility in Appleton has a capacity of 1,600 people, which would make it one of the nation’s largest immigration detention facilities.
Upon emerging from sprawling facility, Democrats and Republicans provided vastly different accounts of what they saw within.
Two brothers from Mexico were arrested during a traffic stop and are now being held at the Alligator Alcatraz detention center.
A federal judge heard arguments Monday but declined to make an immediate ruling about the legal conditions of detainees at “Alligator Alcatraz.”