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Florida's top emergency official says a lawsuit to stop an immigration detention center known as ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ in the Everglades was filed in the wrong court.
An Italian passport holder was already preparing to leave the U.S. All three ended up at Alligator Alcatraz, a vast compound of tents and trailers built to hold up to 3,000 migrants deep in the Florida Everglades.
The state of Florida has opened a migrant detention center in the Everglades. Its official name is Alligator Alcatraz, a reference to the former maximum security federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay.
Alligator Alcatraz is located in a remote region in South Florida, which includes the Florida Everglades and Big Cypress Wildlife Management Area. There are few roads and even fewer towns.
Alligator Alcatraz is not just a moniker designed to sell political merchandise. It is actually the official name of the state-run immigration detention facility that Gov. Ron DeSantis ...
President Donald Trump is visiting "Alligator Alcatraz" on Tuesday, July 1. Here's what to know about the trip and the detention center in Florida.