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'Absolute Hell Hole': Private Prisons Set to House ICE Detainees Bring New Set of Problems

  • On July 2, 2025, Alligator Alcatraz, a new migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades, began accepting detainees.
  • Florida Governor Ron DeSantis used emergency powers to authorize rapid construction of the facility to support expanded deportations.
  • The compound includes tents, trailers, barbed wire, and 400 security staff, housing about 3,000 detainees with capacity for 5,000 future expansion.
  • President Trump described the site as surrounded by "treacherous swampland" and said, "The only way out is, really, deportation," highlighting deterrence strategy.
  • The detention center reflects intensified immigration enforcement but faces criticism and lawsuits from civil rights and environmental groups.
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The United States maintains the largest immigration detention system in the world, where thousands of people—both those who have resided in the country for years and those who have recently fled violence or poverty—are arrested and detained under conditions that have been denounced by humanitarian agencies as “infrahuman” and “negligent.” READ ALSO: They report that “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant prison evidences racism and supremacism from the Un…

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Alligator Alcatraz opened ready for a hurricane – but not a summer shower

Alligator Alcatraz opened Tuesday without a water view. Then it rained.

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South Florida Reporter broke the news in on Tuesday, July 1, 2025.
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