DHS Secretary Praises Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' Plan as Agency Expands Immigration Detention

Activists target ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ to protect Everglades from ICE

Florida GOP Hawks Merch for Brutal ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Migrant Detention Camp

The Florida Republican Party is selling merchandise promoting its new migrant detention camp in the Florida Everglades. Dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” by its proponents, Republicans are salivating at the prospect of subjecting undocumented migrants to brutal conditions in giant plastic tents situated in the oppressive heat and humidity of backwater Florida.  “The feds have greenlit Alligator Alcatraz — Florida’s gator-guarded, python-patrolled pr…

DHS secretary praises Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' plan as agency expands immigration detention

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Florida plan for ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ migrant jail sparks chorus of outrage

Environmental groups, immigration advocates and Native Americans decry idea to set up the outdoor detention campEnvironmental groups, immigration rights activists and a Native American tribe have decried the construction of a harsh outdoor migrant detention camp in the Florida Everglades billed by state officials as “Alligator Alcatraz”.Crews began preparing the facility at a remote, largely disused training airfield this week in support of the …

Florida builds 'Alligator Alcatraz' despite protest

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has announced a plan to build an immigrant detention center in the heart of the Everglades. Native Americans are furious at the desecration of their ancestral lands.

Native leaders blast construction of Florida’s ’Alligator Alcatraz’ on land they call sacred

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration is racing ahead with construction of a makeshift immigration detention facility at an airstrip in the Everglades over the opposition of Native American leaders who consider the area their sacred ancestral homelands.