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Miami-Dade mayor seeks monitoring access to Alligator Alcatraz detention site, citing deaths and poor conditions
Mayor Daniella Levine Cava is requesting remote video monitoring, weekly site condition reports and scheduled access to the ...
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Florida Immigration Coalition wants Miami-Dade to go court to close 'Alligator Alcatraz'
The Florida Immigrant Coalition has commissioned a pair of billboards calling on Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava ...
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‘Alligator Alcatraz’ is just the start of a state plan to remove immigrants. Will it wreck Florida’s economy?
Mega-farmer Francis Alfred “Alfie” Oakes III addresses the camera at one of his farms in Collier County. Behind him are ...
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Florida Bishop: ‘No Argument’ with Removing Criminals, but ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Is Troubling
A Florida bishop is criticizing recent public statements from public officials supporting a new detention facility for ...
Republican donors, Florida's hurricane know-how helped build 'Alligator Alcatraz' quickly
The first detainees arrived July 3 at the facility, which will cost $450 million to operate and consists of tents and ...
Orange County Corrections confirms 'some' incarcerated people have been taken to Alligator Alcatraz
WESH 2 has confirmed people held over the past week in the Orange County jail have been transported to the new Alligator Alcatraz detention facility in the Florida Everglades.
Giant bugs, heat and a hospital visit: Inside Alligator Alcatraz’s first days
Concerns about conditions for detainees were heightened when one was rushed out of the detention center Monday in an ambulance.
Environmental groups claim paving is happening at 'Alligator Alcatraz' in new court filing
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has previously said there would be no impacts to vegetation and there would be no paving or ...