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Emails show DeSantis administration blindsided county officials with plans for 'Alligator Alcatraz'

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration left many local officials in the dark about the immigration detention center that rose from an isolated airstrip in the Everglades

The Independent UK

'Alligator Alcatraz' Detainees Say in New Lawsuit They're Being Denied Access to Their Attorneys

The lawsuit says attorneys have been repeatedly turned away from the detention camp and had virtual meetings mysteriously canceled.

Reason

DeSantis under fire for using disaster funds to build migrant detention jail

Analysis of $20m spent on ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ shows some contracts went to governor’s donors or allies

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Advocates Claim Migrants Held At 'Alligator Alcatraz' Are Being Prevented From Accessing Legal Counsel

Advocacy groups have filed a lawsuit claiming that migrants being held at the detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz" are being prevented from accessing legal counsel

Latin Times

Lawyers and Families Report Squalid Conditions and Lack of Legal Access at Alligator Alcatraz

Numerous accounts of lack of showers, overflowing toilets, and inability to meet with lawyers are emerging from the detention center in the middle of the Everglades.

Reason

‘Alligator Alcatraz’ showcases Donald Trump’s penchant for visual cruelty

The United States government recently announced the opening of a massive immigrant detention facility built deep within the Florida Everglades that’s been dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said during a media briefing that “there is only one road leading in … and the only way out…

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DHS Secretary Noem Says Five Republican States Wish to Copy Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz', Calls on Democrats to Follow Suit

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem has announced that five Republican-led states are in active discussions with the federal government to replicate Florida's recently opened migrant detention facility, known as "Alligator Alcatraz."

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The Miccosukee Tribe of Florida wants to join a federal lawsuit against 'Alligator Alcatraz'

The Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida is seeking to join a federal lawsuit aimed at halting the construction of a new immigration detention facility in the Everglades, which tribal members consider their sacred ancestral homelands

The Independent UK

Florida is fronting the $450M cost of Alligator Alcatraz – a legal scholar explains what we still don’t know about the detainees

The state of Florida has opened a migrant detention center in the Everglades. Its official name is Alligator Alcatraz, a reference to the former maximum security federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay.

The Conversation

‘It’s a concentration camp’: Everything we know about Trump’s new ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ in the Florida Everglades

EXPLAINER: The already-notorious immigrant detention camp was rapidly assembled in a remote location full of dangerous wildlife. But detainees have alleged brutal conditions — even while Republicans sell merchandise, writes Io Dodds

The Independent UK

Alligator Alcatraz report disputes Trump’s claim that it would detain the “most menacing migrants”

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The Independent UK

The Original Alcatraz Closed for Costing Too Much. Alligator Alcatraz Should Too.

Florida’s elected officials should learn from the original facility that inspired the state’s newest immigrant detention center's name, and change course before it’s too late.

Reason

Hundreds of 'Alligator Alcatraz' Detainees Don't Have Criminal Records

Trump said the prison camp would hold "some of the most vicious people on the planet," but a list obtained by the Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Tribune shows otherwise.

Reason

Democratic Lawmakers Decry Conditions At 'Alligator Alcatraz' After Tour: 'Wall-to-Wall Humans in Cages'

Democratic lawmakers sharply criticized the conditions at the Florida's migrant detention facility known as "Alligator Alcatraz" after a state-arranged tour during the weekend.

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Only 1 in 3 Detainees in 'Alligator Alcatraz' Have Criminal Record Despite Trump's Claims That It Holds 'The Most Menacing Migrants'

Records reviewed by the Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times show that just one in every three detainees at the detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz" have a criminal conviction in the United States.

Latin Times

Kristi Noem Promises Cameras at Alligator Alcatraz Will Prove Conditions Are Better Than Migrants Faced Under Biden

Florida lawmakers and social media reports alleged 30 detainees share a cell and use the same area for drinking, brushing their teeth, and using the restroom, claims Noem denied.

The Independent UK

Trump said Alligator Alcatraz was built for the ‘most vicious people on the planet’ — but hundreds of detainees have no criminal record

More than 700 people being held at temporary detention facility in the Florida Everglades

Latin Times

Kristi Noem Defends Conditions At 'Alligator Alcaraz' As Criticism Mounts: 'Standards Are Extremely High'

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem defended the conditions at the Florida migrant detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz," saying the standards are "extremely high."

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The Guardian - US

Hundreds of detainees with no criminal charges sent to Trump’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

Authorities have refused to release list of people sent there as Democratic lawmakers decry ‘inhumane’ conditions

The Independent UK

Lawmaker says Alligator Alcatraz is an ‘internment camp’ after joint GOP-Dem visit: ‘Packed into cages’

Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who represents Florida's 25th congressional district, said that pictures of the facility ‘don’t do it justice’

Latin Times

Congressman Reveals Conditions At Alligator Alcatraz That Made His 'Heart Sink' After Tour

A Democratic Congressman revealed the horrific conditions he witnessed while visiting the newly opened 'Alligator Alcatraz' migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades.

The Guardian - US

‘Alligator Alcatraz’ showcases Trump’s surreal brand of stylized cruelty

Immigrants are living in brutal conditions at the Florida detention camp, built on a sense of scripted unreality

The Independent UK

Miami Archbishop shreds MAGA’s praise of Alligator Alcatraz amid reports of inhumane conditions: ‘Unbecoming of public officials’

Immigrants held at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ say they’re given maggot-infested food and don’t have water to take baths

The Independent UK

Detainees describe worms in food, sewage near beds inside 'Alligator Alcatraz'

Worms in the food

The Independent UK

Florida lawmakers who were denied access to 'Alligator Alcatraz' sue DeSantis

Five Florida state lawmakers who were denied access to a new immigration detention center in the Everglades are suing Gov. Ron DeSantis

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