Florida, Alligator Alcatraz
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In Florida, price of immigration "emergency" includes $12,000 plane tickets to Martha's Vineyard and $400-a-night beds at Alligator Alcatraz.
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.
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Cuban reggaeton artist Leamsy La Figura, arrested last week in Miami-Dade on assault charges, was transferred to South Florida's new immigration detention facility known as Alligator Alcatraz in the Everglades, the singer confirmed in a phone call.
President Donald Trump toured Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz migrant detention facility in the Everglades ahead of its first expected detainees. "It's known as Alligator Alcatraz,
Alligator Alcatraz isn't just stupid and cruel. It echoes Florida's racist past. | Opinion For starters, making jokes about feeding people to alligators was what racists used to do during the Jim ...