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‘The job is getting done’: Gov. DeSantis shrugs off Alligator Alcatraz criticism
Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a Marco Island event that there won’t be adverse impacts to the Everglades. He’s also not concerned about what Collier County thinks about the quick process to construct the prison for migrants ahead of deportation on the edge of the Everglades at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport.
Who ended up at Alligator Alcatraz? It’s not just ‘worst of the worst’ criminals, as officials said
But data and news reports about the first month’s arrivals show the majority of Alligator Alcatraz’s detainees do not have U.S. criminal convictions. President Donald Trump, federal officials and Florida Republicans touted the remote Everglades immigration detention centers — dubbed Alligator Alcatraz — as a place to detain people deemed the "worst of the worst.
Democratic lawmakers are condemning Florida’s new Everglades immigration detention center after making a state-arranged visit ...
At least five Republican governors are reportedly considering building large-scale immigration detention centers modeled ...
Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-Fla.) was among a group of lawmakers given a tour of the controversial immigration detention ...
Five Florida state lawmakers who were denied access to a new immigration detention center in the Everglades are suing Gov.
Dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” the massive tent detention complex built deep in the Florida Everglades can hold 3,000 and could ...
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