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Judge sets deadlines in ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ suit

MIAMI — Lawyers seeking a temporary restraining order against an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades say ...
Maryland Daily Record16hOpinion

Civil rights groups sue over ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ abuse

Attorneys say Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' violates detainees' rights, with blocked access to counsel and canceled bond ...

Feds begin flights out of Alligator Alcatraz, officials urge undocumented to self-deport

U.S. Department of Homeland Security has started to fly undocumented immigrants out of the detention center 'in the last few ...
Florida Politics3d

‘Troubling’: Miami-Dade Mayor demands access, transparency at Alligator Alcatraz

Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava is demanding access and oversight authority at the controversial Alligator Alcatraz ...
Niners Wire26d

Will Camp Blanding be the 'Alligator Alcatraz' of Northeast Florida? Here's what we know.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced plans for a second immigration detention center at ... To place things into perspective, the “Alligator Alcatraz” facility, designed to hold up to 5,000 ...
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Who ended up at Alligator Alcatraz? It’s not just ‘worst of the worst’ criminals, as officials said

But data and news reports about the first month’s arrivals show the majority of Alligator Alcatraz’s detainees do not have U.S. criminal convictions.  President Donald Trump, federal officials and ...
The New Yorker11d

The Shame of “Alligator Alcatraz”

P.S. Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, a Holocaust survivor who played cello in the Auschwitz women’s orchestra, turns a hundred today.

First Deportation Flights Depart From Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

Gov. Ron DeSantis said hundreds of immigration detainees had departed a state-run detention center in the Everglades on ...