Florida, Alligator Alcatraz
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Kristi Noem, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, said in an announcement that spinoff facilities are currently underway.
Florida’s immigration detention facility located at an isolated Everglades airfield surrounded by mosquito-, python- and alligator-filled swamplands went from a video on X to reality in a matter of days,
Dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” the massive tent detention complex built deep in the Florida Everglades can hold 3,000 and could be the template for other facilities in other states.
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Inside ‘Alligator Alcatraz’: What Lawmakers Really Saw—and Why It Matters NowCan a single facility be an “clean, air-conditioned, and well-kept” center and, at the same time, an “internment camp” with “vile conditions”? That is the paradox at the heart of Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz,
This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.
The concept, a product of the go-go 1960's, was killed by an unlikely environmental pioneer, President Richard Nixon
Beds are seen inside a migrant detention center, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” located at the site of the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, as US President Donald Trump tours the ...