Lawmakers to tour 'Alligator Alcatraz
Digest more
A man claiming to be an Alligator Alcatraz worker says he was fired after he started posting videos from the site on social media.
As Florida moved quickly to build an immigration detention facility in the Everglades, some critics likened the site to a concentration camp. Some TikTok videos attempted to lend credence to the analogy: Alligator Alcatraz, they said, is getting incinerators.
It’s not a detention facility that is going to be up to par with the requirements necessarily, so yeah, it’s horrible,” his attorney said. “Never in a million years did I think our client would
The joke's on anyone who is disturbed enough to want a tour of Florida's new horror show. The Trump administration recently launched “ Alligator Alcatraz, ” a migrant detention center based in Florida whose name references the region’s native population of scaly reptilians.
If adopted by the county commission Tuesday, an amended agreement with the federal government would authorize county correctional officers to transport immigration detainees at the request of ICE.
Explore more
Immigrants at Florida’s Everglades detention center speak out about ‘abusive’ treatment, one week after its opening
More questions arise over how Florida’s newest immigration detention center is being funded by the Trump administration.
Detainees are telling their families about what it’s like to live in cells inside heavy-duty tents erected on an airstrip in Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida.