Florida, Alligator Alcatraz
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The findings raise questions about the DeSantis administration’s vetting of the companies that received Alligator Alcatraz contracts.
The contested migrant detention center is the first of its kind in the US, but other states are interested in building similar sites of their own
The days at “Alligator Alcatraz” may be numbered after a federal judge ordered the state to begin winding down operations at the detention center within two months.
A federal judge has ordered the remote detention camp in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz” to stop taking detainees and remove infrastructure added to the original airport site.