State, feds in talks to close Alligator Alcatraz due to operating costs: NYT
DHS officials say the facility is too expensive to keep operating, with costs topping $1 million a day and nearly 1,400 detainees inside.
- Florida entered preliminary talks with the Trump administration to close the "Alligator Alcatraz" migrant detention facility in the Everglades, citing mounting operational costs that have strained state finances.
- The facility, opened last summer, has faced persistent criticism from the Miccosukee Tribe and environmental groups for disrupting sacred lands and wildlife habitats within the Everglades region.
- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis's administration has spent more than $1 million a day to operate the center, yet the state has not received the $608 million federal reimbursement promised.
- Although the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently overturned an injunction that would have closed the site, Department of Homeland Security officials now consider the center ineffective and too expensive.
- No official closure decision has been made, but preliminary talks highlight the facility's struggle to maintain operations amid ongoing litigation and the lack of anticipated federal funding.
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Noem's infamous 'Alligator Alcatraz' likely to close soon
Florida officials are in talks with the Trump administration about closing down “Alligator Alcatraz,” the cheeky term for a pop-up detention center for illegal immigrants in the Everglades, in the near future, the Washington Examiner has learned. “It is closing,” a former senior administration official with knowledge of the talks told the Washington Examiner on Friday. “Too expensive and they want it out before this hurricane season.” Hurricane…
Florida Still Waiting on $608 Million as Feds Eye Closing 'Alligator Alcatraz'
Florida taxpayers are still waiting on $608 million in promised federal reimbursements for a remote immigration detention center that the Trump administration may now shut down entirely. The Department of Homeland Security has concluded that the Everglades facility, nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz,” costs too much to operate, according to The New York Times, which cited unnamed sources. The development comes as Florida and the Trump administration…
The infamous Alligator Alcatraz detention center, in the Everglades, west of Miami, erected 10 months ago as an emblem of Donald Trump's anti-immigrant agenda and which has become a symbol of the Administration's cruelty to migrants, could be approaching its end.
DeSantis addresses reports that 'Alligator Alcatraz' may close soon
He did not dispute the possible shutdown, instead reiterating that it is a stopgap meant to help the federal government house detainees. The post DeSantis addresses reports that ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ may close soon appeared first on Orlando Weekly.
Ron DeSantis to do what to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’!? – The Horn News
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday that the immigration detention center known as “ Alligator Alcatraz ” always was meant to be temporary. His comments came on the same day that The New York Times reported state and federal officials were in early talks about shutting down the facility in the Florida Everglades that DeSantis said has processed and deported 22,000 detainees since it opened last summer. “At some point, we will, of course, bre…
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