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Everglades, Alligator Alcatraz and immigrant detention

Darkness is crucial to Everglades habitat. Could Alligator Alcatraz threaten it?

Artificial light in a world-renowned “dark sky” preserve is just one of the environmental and human health concerns surrounding the facility.

USA TODAY · 10h

What happened and when with Everglades detention camp, AKA Alligator Alcatraz? A timeline

J une 19 Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announces plans for a migrant detention center in the Everglades via X. The state has declared its official name to be Alligator Alcatraz. June 21 Protesters begin gathering near the proposed site at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport as trucks carrying supplies and fill dirt stream in.

Los Angeles Magazine · 4h

Trump Opens "Alligator Alcatraz" Immigrant Detainment Facility in Florida Everglades

A federal court ruled that California's ban on private prisons and detention centers like San Diego's Otay Mesa Detention Center, owned and operated by private company CoreCivic, and where migrant children were detained separately from their parents, is unconstitutional. (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

Members of Miccosukee Tribe, Everglades residents decry Alligator Alcatraz as threat to land and culture

Cited concerns included light pollution, saying the bright lights from the facility are diminishing the internationally ...

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DACA recipient detained at Alligator Alcatraz, attorney says. ‘We don’t know why’

The narrative is that only violent criminals are being sent to Alligator Alcatraz,” attorney Phillip Arroyo said. “We don’t ...

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‘Mosquitoes size of elephants’: Detainees complain about ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ conditions

Detainees at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” report being relentlessly swarmed by mosquitoes in the Everglades-based illegal immigration detention facility.

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DHS disputes dire conditions at Alligator Alcatraz

The Department of Homeland Security is denying reports of improper living conditions for detainees at Alligator Alcatraz.

Florida Politics2h

Democrats in Congress planned an unannounced visit to ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Then Florida scheduled a guided tour.

For Democratic members of Congress planned an unannounced visit on Thursday to the so-called ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ center.

‘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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Giant bugs, heat and a hospitalization: Inside Alligator Alcatraz’s first days

Detainees are telling their families about what it’s like to live in cells inside heavy-duty tents erected on an airstrip in ...

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Orange County Corrections confirms 'some' incarcerated people have been taken to Alligator Alcatraz

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.

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