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Democrats Condemn Conditions at Everglades Immigration Center After Tour
FLORIDA EVERGLADES, JUL 14 – Democratic lawmakers highlight overcrowding and poor conditions at Florida's $450 million facility, with over 250 detainees lacking criminal charges, amid political controversy and limited transparency.
- On July 2, 2025, Florida began operating a state-managed immigrant detention facility called Alligator Alcatraz, situated near a secluded airstrip in the Everglades region.
- The center was rapidly built on 39 square miles of seized Everglades land under claimed emergency powers despite concerns about environmental harm to the Big Cypress area, which is sacred to the Miccosukee and Seminole tribes.
- Democratic lawmakers toured the facility on July 12, describing it as overcrowded, unsanitary, and lacking detainee access, with temperatures measured between 83 and 85 degrees and conditions including bugs on mattresses and poor privacy.
- Republican officials like Sen. Blaise Ingoglia and State Sen. Jay Collins countered that the center is clean, well-run, meets all required standards, and features comfortable beds and working air conditioning.
- The facility houses thousands of detainees, faces lawsuits after lawmakers were denied visits, and raises environmental and human rights concerns amid efforts to expand migrant detention capacity.
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Wasserman Schultz: 'Inhumane' Alligator Alcatraz Needs to Be 'Shut the Hell Down'
Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) said Tuesday on CNN's "The Lead" that the newly constructed immigrant-detention center in the Everglades, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," needed to be "shut the hell down."
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Dems Denied Access to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Sue Gov. DeSantis
Five state lawmakers who were denied access to a migrant detention center in the Everglades that state Attorney General James Uthmeier has nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz" are suing Gov. Ron DeSantis, reported The Associated Press. "The DeSantis Administration's refusal to let us in wasn't some bureaucratic misstep," the lawmakers said in a joint statement. "It was a deliberate obstruction meant to hide what's really happening behind those gates. …
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