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Feds begin flights out of Alligator Alcatraz, officials urge undocumented to self-deport
U.S. Department of Homeland Security has started to fly undocumented immigrants out of the detention center 'in the last few ...
Who’s in charge at Alligator Alcatraz? ‘We’ve gotten a lot of runaround’
What they’re trying to do, at the end of the day, is pretend like this facility is not governed by federal law,”  said one ...
First Deportation Flights Depart From Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
Gov. Ron DeSantis said hundreds of immigration detainees had departed a state-run detention center in the Everglades on ...
Deportation flights from ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ begin as Florida vows a ‘surge’ of immigration arrests
It’s not clear where the flights ended up after Gov. Ron DeSantis announced them from the controversial tent city the state ...
Miami-Dade Mayor demands ‘immediate access' and oversight over Alligator Alcatraz
The Mayor of Miami-Dade County is once again demanding access to Alligator Alcatraz, the immigrant detention center in the ...
Contracts reveal the big business of building and operating Alligator Alcatraz
The Trump administration says each bed at the detention camp is expected to cost $245 a day - roughly the price of one night ...
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Deportation flights from ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ have begun
Deportation flights from the makeshift South Florida immigration detention facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” have begun, ...
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‘Troubling’: Miami-Dade Mayor demands access, transparency at Alligator Alcatraz
Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava is demanding access and oversight authority at the controversial Alligator Alcatraz ...
Inside Florida's Alligator Alcatraz: What we know about the immigrant detention center
How many inmates at Florida's Alligator Alcatraz? How many people in a cell? Where do they eat? Who works there? Is there air ...
Lawmakers visited Alligator Alcatraz. Here’s what they say they saw and learned
Democrats also focused on what they said they learned at the facility: They said officials clarified repeatedly that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is “calling the shots” at the detention ...
Florida plan to deputize National Guard officers as immigration judges at Alligator Alcatraz would likely violate constitutional rights
Neither President Donald Trump nor Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis can legally create a new system of immigration judges outside of ...
Florida: official sparks controversy among ex-partners of undocumented immigrants, and the Alligator Alcatraz conflict grows
James Uthmeier is Florida's Attorney General and has deepened the controversy surrounding Donald Trump's immigration policies. He publicly invited ex-partners ...