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Giant bugs, heat and a hospitalization: Inside Alligator Alcatraz's first days
Concerns about conditions for detainees were heightened when one was rushed out of the detention center Monday in an ...
‘Gravely concerned’: Miami-Dade County mayor presses for access to Alligator Alcatraz
Amid allegations of deplorable conditions in Alligator Alcatraz, mayor of Miami-Dade County asks the feds and state ...
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Florida Immigration Coalition wants Miami-Dade to go court to close 'Alligator Alcatraz'
The Florida Immigrant Coalition has commissioned a pair of billboards calling on Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava ...
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Florida Bishop: ‘No Argument’ with Removing Criminals, but ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Is Troubling
A Florida bishop is criticizing recent public statements from public officials supporting a new detention facility for ...
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‘Alligator Alcatraz’ is just the start of a state plan to remove immigrants. Will it wreck Florida’s economy?
Mega-farmer Francis Alfred “Alfie” Oakes III addresses the camera at one of his farms in Collier County. Behind him are ...
5 things to know about GardaWorld, one of the contractors behind Alligator Alcatraz
GardaWorld, an international security company whose U.S. headquarters are in Boca Raton, is one of several contractors hired ...
Florida now has a mass deportation ‘blueprint,’ but is it legal? What to know
Florida continues to carry out mass deportations, prompting legal experts to question the legality of the state’s ...
FDEM pushes back against claims about Alligator Alcatraz
Leaders of Florida’s controversial new immigration detention center, Alligator Alcatraz, are pushing back against democratic ...