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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe in Miami

Florida plan for ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ migrant jail sparks chorus of outrage

a composite showing a man in a suit and an airfield
The Florida attorney general has proposed an immigrant detention facility at a disused training airfield in the Everglades. Composite: AP, Office of Attorney General James Uthmeier

Environmental groups, immigration rights activists and a Native American tribe have decried the construction of a harsh outdoor migrant detention camp in the Florida Everglades billed by state officials as “Alligator Alcatraz”.

Crews began preparing the facility at a remote, largely disused training airfield this week in support of the Trump administration’s aggressive goal of arresting and incarcerating 3,000 undocumented migrants every day.

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