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Lawmakers Visit 'Alligator Alcatraz'
FLORIDA EVERGLADES NEAR OCHOPEE, FLORIDA, JUL 14 – Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz criticized the detention center's inhumane conditions, highlighting overcrowding and shared sink-toilet units housing up to 3,000 detainees, many with criminal records.
- On Saturday, Democratic and Republican lawmakers spent 90 minutes touring the Everglades immigration detention center known as 'Alligator Alcatraz'.
- The facility was quickly established on a remote airstrip in response to a federal government request aimed at meeting the increasing demand for migrant detention under the DeSantis administration.
- Democrats criticized severe overcrowding with 32 detainees per cage, poor sanitation, and food disparities, while Republicans described the center as safe, clean, and well-maintained.
- Republican State Senator Blaise Ingoglia mentioned efforts to expand capacity by 4,000 beds and criticized those who oppose this plan as attempting to politicize the issue, stating that such efforts will not succeed.
- The tour and facility have intensified political and environmental controversy, with lawsuits filed to halt the project and activists decrying it as dehumanizing and harmful to the Everglades ecosystem.
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