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'Sick' MAGA Influencer Hints at Feeding Immigrants to Gators: 'Alligator Lives Matter'

As Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz" garners national attention, Laura Loomer fueled controversy with her suggestion that detainees will be food for alligators.

Latin Times

Florida Can Forbid Transgender High School Math Teacher From Using Feminine Pronouns to Refer to Herself in Class, 11th Circuit Says

The appeals court vacated a preliminary injunction that had been based on her First Amendment rights

Reason

Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' detention center is set to receive its first group of immigrants

The first group of immigrants are set to arrive at a new detention center deep in the Florida Everglades that officials have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”

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Florida Teachers Have No First Amendment Right to Indicate Their Preferred Pronouns and Honorifics in Class

So an Eleventh Circuit panel held today, by a 2-1 vote.

Reason

Florida Plans To Deputize 9 National Guardsmen as Immigration Judges To Increase Deportations

Legal experts are concerned that immigration judges with only six weeks of training will not uphold constitutional protections for migrants.

Reason

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.

Latin Times

GOP Lawmaker Rages After Democratic Rep Declares 'Pro-Life' Legislators Want Babies 'To Be Born and Get Shot'

Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) incited uproar in a House Rules Committee meeting, accusing GOP who call themselves "pro-life" of wanting children to "get shot."

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Florida police smash through glass to rescue woman from car inferno

This is the nail-biting moment Florida police smashed through glass to save a woman trapped in a burning car.

The Independent UK

Trump Approves Florida Plan to Use National Guard as Immigration Judges to Speed Deportations

Trump announced that he has approved Florida Gov. DeSantis' proposal to deputize National Guard Judge Advocate General Corps officers to serve as immigration judges at a newly built detention facility in the Everglades.

Latin Times

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.

Reason

Trump suggests teaching migrants how to run away from alligators

Donald Trump has suggested teaching migrants how to run away from alligators as he toured a new migrant detention center in Florida known as “Alligator Alcaratz”.

The Independent UK

Trump’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ tour was a calculated celebration of the dystopian

The detention center visit seemed to represent a landmark in a defining issue since even before his first term: migration

The Guardian - US

US tax-and-spending bill debated in House – as it happened

Only four Republicans need to side with Democrats to block legislation

The Guardian - US

Trump jokes about immigrants being attacked by alligators during ‘Florida Alcatraz’ tour

‘Don't run in a straight line. Run like this’ Mr Trump said, as he moved his hand in a zigzag motion

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Trump says alligators could police migrants at ‘escape-proof’ center

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Photos of Trump touring an immigration detention center dubbed 'Alligator Alcatraz'

President Donald Trump toured a newly built immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades surrounded by alligator-filled swamps and nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz.” He praised it as a model for future nationwide facilities aimed at accelerating deportations, including possibly deporting U.S. citizens.

Latin Times

Trump Revives Idea of Deporting US Citizen Criminals 'We Ought to Get Them the Hell Out of Here'

Speaking in Florida, President Donald Trump floated the idea of deporting criminals even if they are U.S.-born citizens.

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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Trump Mocked for Saying He Plans to 'Spend a Lot of Time Here' in Response to 'Alligator Alcatraz' Question: 'Calling Himself a Detainee'

President Donald Trump is being ridiculed by social media users after mishearing a question from a reporter, stating that he planned on spending a lot of time in Florida after being asked how long migrants would be detained at Alligator Alcatraz.

The Independent UK

Two women accused of child neglect after 5-year-olds shut in shed in Florida heat

A mother and grandmother in Florida are facing child neglect charges after allegedly leaving the 5-year-old twin girls in a shed for several hours, with a brick blocking the door

Latin Times

Trump Supports Lara Trump Making North Carolina Senate Run: 'Would Really Be Great'

President Donald Trump said he would support a Senate run by his daughter-in-law Lara Trump but cast doubt about the possibility, saying she and his son Eric "live in Florida and they have a very good life"

The Independent UK

What the key witnesses at Sean 'Diddy' Combs' sex trafficking trial told the jury

The jury deliberating at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial heard testimony from 34 witnesses over the last seven weeks

Benzinga

Trump And DeSantis Inaugurate 'Alligator Alcatraz' Immigrant Detention Center Deep In Florida Everglades

Florida opened its newly minted state-run immigrant detention camp deep in the Everglades, nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz." President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis were on hand to inaugurate the facility on Tuesday in an apparent push to support the president's aggressive deportation campaign.

Al Jazeera

‘Cops in the form of alligators’: Trump visits Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz

The migrant detention facility, located in the Florida wetlands, was built in eight days and will include 3,000 beds.

International Business Times

Trump Declares Biden 'Wanted' to Lock Him Up While Touring 'Alligator Alcatraz,' Unleashes Wave of Jokes: 'We All Did'

While touring the new "Alligator Alcatraz" migrant detention center in Florida, President Donald Trump joked that President Biden wanted him incarcerated in the facility, spurring a barrage of mockery from social media users.

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