Deportation flights from ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ begin
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The Trump administration announced on Friday that it would allocate over $600M in grants to states willing to build migrant detention centers modeled after 'Alligator Alcatraz.'
A Central Florida man — legally in the United States, according to his attorneys — has been released from the state’s Alligator Alcatraz detention center, but remains in federal custody, one of those attorneys said Friday.
What they’re trying to do, at the end of the day, is pretend like this facility is not governed by federal law,” said one attorney.
CNN talked to immigrants being detained at the Florida facility and created a 3D model to explore what conditions are like inside. CNN’s Priscilla Alvarez reports.
In an emotional conversation with WPTV, a County woman described her family's struggle while her husband is detained at "Alligator Alcatraz."
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The Mayor of Miami-Dade County is once again demanding access to Alligator Alcatraz, the immigrant detention center in the Everglades that was rapidly built on property seized from the county.