Florida, Alligator Alcatraz
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More questions arise over how Florida’s newest immigration detention center is being funded by the Trump administration.
Constructed in eight days with an annual budget of $450 million, the "Alligator Alcatraz" migrant detention camp in Florida is already feeling the strain, in this video from Democratic candidate for Orlando Mayor Anna Eskamani.
Gov. Ron DeSantis told reporters the state is planning to hold another 2,000 detainees at the Camp Blanding migrant detention facility.
Late last month, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the state budget total of $117.9 billion and sent out a list of all the items he vetoed from the budget submitted to him by lawmakers. In all, DeSantis trimmed about $567 million in line items from the 2025-26 state budget approved by the Florida Legislature,
Alligator Alcatraz may have been built in eight days, but Florida’s race to become the top spot for President Donald Trump’s deportation agenda has been building for months.
President Donald Trump toured Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz migrant detention facility in the Everglades ahead of its first expected detainees. Here is a fact-check of some of his remarks.
A site known as the Jetport is now home to a growing migrant prison encampment capable of holding thousands of detainees.
Post readers break down the Trump administration’s expensive immigration policies and cuts to humanitarian aid.
President Donald Trump is set to visit Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz," and Gov. Ron DeSantis signs the state budget into law. After signing Florida's state budget Monday in Wildwood, Gov. Ron ...