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Is Alligator Alcatraz the official name of the Florida immigrant detention center?

"Alligator Alcatraz" is the name posted in front of the hastily converted immigrant detention facility in the Florida Everglades.

Miami Herald on MSN · 4d

Alligator Alcatraz has opened in the Florida Everglades. Here are some takeaways

A state-run detention facility for migrants has opened in the Florida Everglades. Alligator Alcatraz - that is the official name - was assembled in eight days and opened on July 1. President Donald Trump visited the remote site on opening day, built at an old runway near the Miami-Dade and Collier county line.

WLRN · 2h

Florida Immigration Coalition wants Miami-Dade to go court to close 'Alligator Alcatraz'

The Florida Immigrant Coalition has commissioned a pair of billboards calling on Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava to take state officials to court to shut down legal action against the now operational the immigration detention camp in the Everglades,

‘Gravely concerned’: Miami-Dade County mayor presses for access to Alligator Alcatraz

Amid allegations of deplorable conditions in Alligator Alcatraz, mayor of Miami-Dade County asks the feds and state ...

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Giant bugs, heat and a hospitalization: Inside Alligator Alcatraz's first days

Concerns about conditions for detainees were heightened when one was rushed out of the detention center Monday in an ...

5 things to know about GardaWorld, one of the contractors behind Alligator Alcatraz

GardaWorld, an international security company whose U.S. headquarters are in Boca Raton, is one of several contractors hired ...

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Orange County Corrections confirms 'some' incarcerated people have been taken to Alligator Alcatraz

WESH 2 has confirmed people held over the past week in the Orange County jail have been transported to the new Alligator Alcatraz detention facility in the Florida Everglades.

Family denounces ‘horrible' conditions at ‘Alligator Alcatraz' as mayor demands access to facility

Another family of a migrant is denouncing conditions of lack of water, freezing cold tents and atrocious mosquitoes at the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz.” ...