1st deportation flight from Alligator Alcatraz
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The Trump administration is taking steps toward reopening Alcatraz to house detained immigrants and criminals. The notorious maximum-security prison in the San Francisco Bay was shuttered in 1963 due
Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum visited the site on Thursday to study whether reopening it as a federal prison could work.
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News Nation on MSNTrump’s Alcatraz reopening plan draws expert warnings( NewsNation) — Former acting director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons Hugh Hurwitz says reviving and reopening Alcatraz, the infamous California prison off the coast of San Francisco, would be a massive undertaking. President Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed strong interest in reopening the prison.
Florida officials should learn from the facility that inspired the state’s newest immigrant detention center, and change course before it’s too late.
The creation and celebration of "Alligator Alcatraz," the hastily built detention center in the heart of mosquito-infested Florida swampland, marks a new dehumanizing low in the Trump administration's indiscriminate and cruel posture toward immigrants.
Some of the objections to the facility are that it's located in an alligator and snake-infested swamp. I've also read that some have complained about the Florida heat. Though any facility in Florida is subject to it being hot. It is Florida. Oh, and it's also air-conditioned.
Trump was set to visit "Alligator Alcatraz" around 10 a.m. ET on Tuesday, July 1. The Florida AG said Trump's visit to "Alligator Alcatraz" was scheduled to be livestreamed on Uthmeier's social media channels, including Rumble, YouTube, Facebook and X.