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Florida signs $245 million in contracts for ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Here’s a look by the numbers
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration has already signed at least $245 million in state contracts to set up and run the ...
Environmentalists’ lawsuit to halt ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ filed in wrong court, Florida official says
Florida's top emergency official says a lawsuit to stop an immigration detention center known as ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ in the ...
Emails show DeSantis administration blindsided county officials with plans for ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration left many local officials in the dark about the immigration detention center that ...
Kristi Noem says other unnamed states are in the process of building Alligator Alcatraz-style facilities
At least five Republican governors are reportedly considering building large-scale immigration detention centers modeled ...
Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost visited ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ This is what he saw
Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-Fla.) was among a group of lawmakers given a tour of the controversial immigration detention ...
The Dark History That Predates Trump’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
The location of Trump's immigrant detention center has a painful history of incarceration, abuse, and private interests.
Florida signs $245 million in contracts for 'Alligator Alcatraz' | By the numbers
Gov. Ron DeSantis ’ administration has already signed contracts to pay at least $245 million to set up and run the new ...
Florida Politics5d
‘The job is getting done’: Gov. DeSantis shrugs off Alligator Alcatraz criticism
Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a Marco Island event that there won’t be adverse impacts to the Everglades. He’s also not concerned about what Collier County thinks about the quick process to construct the ...
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Who ended up at Alligator Alcatraz? It’s not just ‘worst of the worst’ criminals, as officials said
But data and news reports about the first month’s arrivals show the majority of Alligator Alcatraz’s detainees do not have U.S. criminal convictions.  President Donald Trump, federal officials and ...