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Alligator Alcatraz has triggered pride in the MAGA world, and fury in an unlikely bipartisan mix of South Floridians. Decades ago, bipartisan outrage erupted in a fight over a jetport on the same
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People held at the brand new Florida immigration detention center that officials have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” say worms turn up in the food, toilets don’t flush and floors flood with fecal waste.
Hundreds of immigrants with no criminal charges in the United States have ended up at Alligator Alcatraz, a detention facility that state and federal officials have characterized as a place where “vicious” and “deranged psychopaths” are sent before they get deported, records obtained by the Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times show.
Karoline Leavitt called the detention center "an efficient and low-cost way" to carry out the Trump administration's mass deportation campaign.
"We've had several other states that are actually using Alligator Alcatraz as a model for how they can partner with us as well," Noem told reporters.
In a newly filed legal notice, environmental groups accused the government agencies of ignoring even more environmental regulations while building and opening Alligator Alcatraz, despite the governor’s pledge to have “zero impacts” on the Everglades.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced discussions with five Republican-led states to replicate the 'Alligator Alcatraz' detention center in Florida. This facility, located 37 miles from Miami,
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Workers install ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ sign outside new immigration detention center in the Everglades
A video shared with the Associated Press overnight on Wednesday shows Florida workers installing a new sign labeled "Alligator Alcatraz" along the only highway leading to the new immigrant detention center in the Everglades.