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Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’: See Who’s Being Held at the Remote Detention Site
FLORIDA EVERGLADES, FLORIDA, JUL 14 – A Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times investigation found over 250 detainees at the facility have no criminal convictions, highlighting concerns over immigration enforcement and detainee rights.
- President Donald Trump toured Florida's remote immigration detention facility known as 'Alligator Alcatraz' on July 1, 2025.
- The facility holds hundreds of immigrants, over 250 with only immigration violations and no criminal convictions, raising debate about enforcement priorities.
- Lawmakers, including Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz, toured the site over the weekend and condemned the inhumane conditions, describing the site as an internment camp.
- Trump said, "I guess that's the concept," when asked if detainees might be eaten by alligators if they escape, while DeSantis praised the facility's natural security as "amazing."
- The detention center's controversial operation has sparked legal challenges and discussion about state-federal tensions and future funding of similar facilities.
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Early days at 'Alligator Alcatraz' full of chaos
OCHOPEE, Fla. — The men at the new immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades have no pencils, books or television. The lights stay on through the night. When it rains, which is nearly every day during summer, the tents…
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https://www.poncacitynews.com/Detained migrants, attorneys file lawsuit for legal rights at Alligator Alcatraz
Immigration lawyers who say they have exhausted all efforts to try to speak with the detained immigrants in Alligator Alcatraz are now looking to the federal courts to aid them in a newly filed lawsuit.
New York, Jul 16 (EFE).- Immigrant rights groups sued U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday for lack of access to legal advice from detainees at Alligator Alcatraz Center in Florida. Claimants, including some detained migrants and law firms representing clients in the center, such as Florida Keys Immigration or Sanctuary of the South, report that detainees not only lack legal advice, but are also not guaranteed due process.
At the beginning of July, a new deportation prison will be opened in the marshlands in southern Florida. Trump is baptizing the "Alligator Alcatraz" facility. According to reports from inmates, the detention conditions there are very poor.
Alligator Alcatraz: how DeSantis bent the law to build it
The state of Florida has opened a migrant detention center in the Everglades. Its official name is Alligator Alcatraz, a reference to the former maximum security federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay.While touring Alligator Alcatraz on July 1, 2025, President Donald Trump said, “This facility will house some of the menacing migrants, some of the most vicious people on the planet.” But new reporting from the Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times revea…
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