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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Oliver O'Connell

Alligator Alcatraz could be shut down. Ron DeSantis has a backup plan

Florida’s controversial 3,000-bed “Alligator Alcatraz” immigrant detention center could be shut down as soon as this fall after a wave of legal challenges.

But the state’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has a backup plan, and Donald Trump’s administration claims that a federal judge’s order to temporarily shut down parts of the facility — which could become permanent — will not halt the president’s aggressive anti-immigration agenda.

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