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On Wednesday night, workers replaced the signs in front of the training facility with ones that read "Alligator Alcatraz."
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Shortly after President Donald Trump left the brand new detention facility to hold immigrants in the middle of the Everglades, a garden-variety South Florida summer rainstorm started.
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The Daily Caller on MSNAlligator Alcatraz Bait: Fussy Florida Legislators Call Everglades Prison For Illegals ‘Totally Un-American’A group of Democratic state lawmakers from Florida were turned away from “Alligator Alcatraz” by authorities Thursday, after seeking to exercise “oversight” over the facility. Democratic State Senators Shevrin Jones and Carlos Guillermo Smith of Florida and Democratic State Representatives Anna Eskamani,
President Donald Trump visited a new immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades on Tuesday as state officials showcased what critics are condemning as an inhumane makeshift prison camp and
He was first taken to Turner Guliford Knight Correctional Center, then to Miramar and finally to the Everglades facility. "I don't think it's humane to have people in those conditions," Katia said.
The disparaging, historically loaded nickname for the facility popped up on Bluesky, X and other social media platforms, and was featured in the headlines of articles denouncing the facility.