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DeSantis responds after emails show Collier officials felt blindsided by Alligator Alcatraz
COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. — Newly released emails reveal Collier County officials were caught off guard when Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered the rapid construction of a migrant detention facility near the Everglades last month.
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.
Andrew Closson was among the civilians standing outside the Alligator Alcatraz on Saturday afternoon in Collier County.
The following three articles on Alligator Alcatraz focus on immigration, environmental impact and politics. The camp sits in the Florida Everglades, using the old Dade-Collier Training and Transition ...
Several hundred demonstrators protested plans for an immigration detention center, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," that is being constructed on an abandoned airstrip in Florida's Everglades.
The remote facility in the Florida Everglades is expected to cost the state about $450 million annually to operate.
How many inmates at Florida's Alligator Alcatraz? How many people in a cell? Where do they eat? Who works there? Is there air ...
New 5,000-bed ICE detention center planned for Florida's Everglades supporting Trump administration's goal to arrest 3,000 illegal immigrants daily, with rapid 30-60 day construction ...
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Deep in the marshy wetlands of the Florida Everglades – less than 50 miles west of President Donald Trump’s Doral resort in ...
State lawmakers denied entry to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ as first migrants arrive at Everglades facility
As the first wave of migrant detainees prepares to arrive, Florida officials are finalizing construction on what critics are now calling “Alligator Alcatraz.” ...
Editor's note: The little-used airstrip in the Everglades that the state is using to build a detention center for immigrants, ...
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