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‘Troubling’: Miami-Dade Mayor Demands Access, Transparency at Alligator Alcatraz
GREATER EVERGLADES AND BIG CYPRESS NATIONAL PRESERVE, FLORIDA, JUL 25 – The nonprofit claims the project violates environmental laws and threatens water, air quality, and recreational use in the Everglades, a key ecosystem supporting Florida's $1.2 billion fishing industry.
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In a deportation prison in the Everglades, the U.S. government wants to accommodate thousands of illegal immigrants. Lawyers complain of unworthy detention conditions, indigenous groups and conservationists warn of environmental damage. By T. Börgers.
Nonprofit sues US government over construction of new 'Alligator Alcatraz' detention facility: 'America's worst idea'
A Florida nonprofit is resuming its fight to protect an ecologically sensitive area slated for a federal detention facility known as "Alligator Alcatraz." More than 50 years ago, Friends of the Everglades succeeded in blocking the construction of an airport in the Everglades. Today, the organization is joining forces with the Center for Biological Diversity to halt the development of the mass detention and deportation facility in the same locat…
Miami-Dade mayor demands 'immediate access' and oversight over Alligator Alcatraz
MIAMI — The Mayor of Miami-Dade County is once again demanding access to Alligator Alcatraz, the immigrant detention center in the Everglades that was rapidly built on property seized from the county. Mayor Daniella Levine Cava’s letter to ...
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