Alligator Alcatraz, immigration detention
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With Alligator Alcatraz running in the Everglades, the governor will turn an underused state prison into a second facility for those awaiting deportation.
Immigration attorneys and advocates are raising concerns about what they say are inhumane conditions at the "Alligator Alcatraz" migrant detention center.
Florida's DeSantis unveils new immigration detention center dubbed 'Deportation Depot' to expand deportations.
Two separate lawsuits could halt operations at “Alligator Alcatraz,” the controversial makeshift immigrant detention center in Florida’s swampy Everglades.
Ron DeSantis, Florida’s governor, has announced plans for a second new migrant detention centre for his state nicknamed “deportation depot” following the opening of “Alligator Alcatraz”.
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New York Magazine on MSN‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Is Worse Than You Realize
Erected on an abandoned airstrip known as the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, the temporary tent city was thrown together in just eight days after Florida authorities presented the federal government with a “marketing pitch” inspired by President Donald Trump longing for the reopening of the original Alcatraz.
Forget GEO Group Stadium, protesters started a movement 12-years ago to make sure another name caught on where Florida Atlantic would play: "Owlcatraz."
Kristi Noem said it will be used to “lock up some of the worst scumbags”—but its inmates haven’t been convicted of violating any laws.