Florida, Alcatraz and Everglades
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Florida’s immigration detention facility located at an isolated Everglades airfield surrounded by mosquito-, python- and alligator-filled swamplands went from a video on X to reality in a matter of days,
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is pressing the Trump administration to repatriate 14 Mexican nationals being held at Alligator Alcatraz, the the controversial immigration detention center in the Everglades.
Since Alligator Alcatraz, a detention facility nestled deep in the Florida Everglades, was proposed in June, it has sparked a lot of reactions across the nation. President Donald Trump toured the
Cornyn made the comments in reference to a new immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades that's surrounded by swamps filled with alligators.
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Since opening earlier this month in the marshy Florida Everglades region, Alligator Alcatraz - named after a notorious federal prison off the coast of San Francisco - has drawn mixed reviews. Democrats and immigrant-rights activists have criticized it, calling it inhumane, while Republicans view it as safe and necessary for national security.
Alligator Alcatraz is a proposed, temporary migrant detention center in Florida's Everglades. Friends of the Everglades in Stuart and the Center for Biological Diversity filed a federal lawsuit against plans to become Alligator Alcatraz. Alligator Alcatraz ...
Catholic priests have been barred from providing religious services inside Florida's new migrant detention facility — dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" — nearly three weeks after it opened, said Archbishop Thomas Wenski.