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'Alligator Alcatraz' Detainees Allege Being Fed 'Worm'-Ridden Food, Not Having Water to Shower

Detainees at Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz" claim they're being denied food, medicine, and water for bathing, prompting calls for an investigation into the secretive state-run facility.

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Arrested Reggaeton star describes Alligator Alcatraz conditions: ‘No water,’ food filled with ‘maggots’

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TikToker Creates Fake 'Alligator Alcatraz' Tour Company That Redirects MAGA Supporters to Migrant Aid Resources

A TikToker created a website touting fake tours of the Trump administration's new "Alligator Alcatraz," which redirects visitors to resources for migrant aid.

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'Alligator Alcatraz' Detainees Decry Lack Of Water To Bathe, Food With Maggots And 'Mosquitoes As Big As Elephants'

A detainee at "Alligator Alcatraz" described harsh conditions, including lack of water to bathe and food with maggots

Latin Times

‘There is no water to take a bath’: Detainees describe conditions in Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

Several men who are being held at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ say they’ve been stripped of ‘human rights’ since arriving on Friday

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Ex-Trump Prison Official Questions 'Alligator Alcatraz' Design: 'Not How We Would Run a Facility'

Former prison officials and attorneys questioned and even condemned the Trump administration's new immigrant detention facility in the Florida Everglades.

Latin Times

Kristi Noem 'Bragging' About Using FEMA Funds for 'Alligator Alcatraz' Resurfaces After Deadly Texas Flood

As Texans mourn the loss of life from devastating July 4 floods, backlash grows over Kristi Noem's decision to use FEMA funds on "Alligator Alcatraz."

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Major DeSantis contributor was awarded Alligator Alcatraz contract

Everglades facility is already targeted by lawsuits from environmental groups who say DeSantis overstepped authority to speed development

The Independent UK

Florida Lawmakers Barred Entry From Alligator Alcatraz After Expressing 'Humanitarian Concerns'

Democratic Florida lawmakers who attempted to enter "Alligator Alcatraz" on Thursday were barred after they expressed "humanitarian concerns" about the new Everglades detention center.

International Business Times

Florida Lawmakers Barred Entry From 'Alligator Alcatraz' After Expressing 'Humanitarian Concerns'

Democratic Florida lawmakers who attempted to enter "Alligator Alcatraz" on Thursday were barred after they expressed "humanitarian concerns" about the new Everglades detention center.

Latin Times

Americans aren’t on board with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’, new survey shows

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Food truck companies face backlash for catering ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

A TikToker filmed Kona Ice, Churro Mania, Elote Lovers and Ms.Cheezious food trucks entering the detention facility in the Florida Everglades

The Independent UK

Florida Lawmakers Sound Alarm Over Plans 'To Send Pregnant Women & Children' to 'Alligator Alcatraz'

Democratic lawmakers in Florida are raising alarm over documents suggesting immigrant children and pregnant women could be detained at 'Alligator Alcatraz.'

Latin Times

Democratic lawmakers denied entry to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration jail

Florida state lawmakers call blockage ‘a blatant abuse of power and an attempt to conceal human rights violations’

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Almost half of Americans disapprove of Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’, new poll shows

Just a third of respondents to survey approved of new Everglades detention center

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Republican donors and Florida's hurricane know-how helped build 'Alligator Alcatraz' so quickly

Florida has converted an isolated airport in the Everglades into a massive immigration detention center called "Alligator Alcatraz."

Latin Times

Three Contractors Helping Build 'Alligator Alcatraz' Reportedly Donated To DeSantis And Florida Republicans

Three contractors helping build the migrant detention center dubbed Alligator Alcatraz have reportedly donated money to the Florida GOP and Governor Ron DeSantis

Al Jazeera

Fact-checking Trump’s immigration and One Big Beautiful Bill claims

US president made a series of remarks while touring Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention centre.

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The Independent UK

Trump’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ set to receive its first group of immigrants

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Welp, Alligator Alcatraz is falling apart faster than Trump’s casinos — anyone shocked?

As if the human rights issues weren't bad enough.

Latin Times

Trump's 'Alligator Alcatraz' Flooded Following Summer Rainstorm Just Hours After President's Visit

President Trump and Kristi Noem toured Florida's controversial sixth ICE detention center during its opening on Tuesday before it flooded.

Reason

Trump Visits $450 Million 'Alligator Alcatraz,' Suggests Taxpayers Should Fund More of Them

Only eight days after construction began, Florida’s new immigration detention center in the Everglades is set to officially open this week.

The Independent UK

Voices: Alligator Alcatraz will get the thumbs up from Trump’s Maga supporters

COMMENT: A vast new migrant detention centre in a remote part of the Florida Everglades – where would-be escapees are guaranteed to be eaten alive by crocodiles – comes from an imagination every bit as sadistic as any in Ancient Rome, says Sean O’Grady

The Independent UK

MAGA star skewered for gleefully promoting ‘official Alligator Alcatraz merch’: ‘The banality of evil’

‘I repeat, this prison has merch. Things are going insanely well,’ Benny Johnson tweeted on Tuesday.

The Independent UK

‘We’ll have to arrest him’: Trump threatens jail for Mamdani in NYC and calls Biden a ‘son of a b****’ in wild ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ visit

The president christened his new ‘escape-proof’ detention center in Florida Tuesday and things went off the rails at times

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