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State prisons could house Alligator Alcatraz detainees in a hurricane
Florida Emergency Management Director Kevin Guthrie said the state has looked at a number of facilities that could be used if ...
'Good grief': DeSantis denies reports of poor conditions inside Alligator Alcatraz
Florida officials defended the conditions and hurricane readiness of the controversial immigration detention center in the ...
Florida says it’s evaluating storm evacuation options at Alligator Alcatraz
Aerial view of structures including gigantic tents built at the recently opened migrant detention center, “Alligator Alcatraz,” located at the site of the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport ...
Deportations start at Alligator Alcatraz as Florida officials vow to "surge" immigration arrests
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday announced deportation flights had begun to take off from the so-called Alligator Alcatraz ...
Lawyers ask federal judge to intervene over Alligator Alcatraz
Questioning the very legality of the state-run detention center, the attorneys said in a legal filing Friday that immigrants ...
Contracts Show Millions of Dollars and Diverted Disaster Resources Were Used to Build DeSantis’ ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
The camp was first announced by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, who is DeSantis’ former chief of staff and was ...
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DeSantis Claims He Didn't Hear From Biden After Hurricane
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis strangely claimed to reporters that he never heard from then-President Joe Biden after Hurricane Helene last year, but the two did indeed speak after the storm blasted ...
Deportation Flights Begin From Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
(Bloomberg) -- The US has begun deporting detainees from the makeshift immigration detention center in Florida dubbed ...
Dems Rip DeSantis For ‘Raiding Hurricane Response Resources’ At ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
Top Florida Democrats issued blistering responses on Wednesday following a TPM report that detailed how Sunshine State Gov. Ron ...