Everglades, Alligator Alcatraz
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President Donald Trump to head to Florida for opening of "Alligator Alcatraz" detention facility in the Everglades, supported by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis but opposed by environmentalists and critics.
State Sen. Shevrin Jones, D-Miami Gardens, said Wednesday that he’s accepted an invitation from the DeSantis administration to tour the controversial Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention center in the Everglades.
Amid allegations of deplorable conditions in Alligator Alcatraz, mayor of Miami-Dade County asks the feds and state government for access to the site.
Detainees are telling their families about what it’s like to live in cells inside heavy-duty tents erected on an airstrip in Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida.
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WESH 2 has confirmed people held over the past week in the Orange County jail have been transported to the new Alligator Alcatraz detention facility in the Florida Everglades.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has previously said there would be no impacts to vegetation and there would be no paving or permanent construction at the Everglades site.
A Florida bishop is criticizing recent public statements from public officials supporting a new detention facility for illegal immigrants in the Everglades as “obviously intentionally provocative” and demeaning the dignity of people who will be held there.
GardaWorld, an international security company whose U.S. headquarters are in Boca Raton, is one of several contractors hired to do work for Alligator Alcatraz. Anyone can view a sampling of recent comments, but you must be a Times subscriber to contribute. Log in above or subscribe here.
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