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Tom Homan slams critics of the Florida Everglades detention facility 'Alligator Alcatraz,' citing high migrant death toll concerns during Biden's presidency.
The Miami Herald has published a list of detainees being held at Alligator Alcatraz, Florida’s makeshift immigration detention center in the Everglades, and found that many have no criminal convictions or pending criminal charges.
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem tells Meet the Press that she will show evidence of what she describes as high-level conditions within the new immigration detention facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” after Florida Democrats toured the facilities and called the conditions “vile.
Cuban reggaeton artist Leamsy La Figura, arrested last week in Miami-Dade on assault charges, was transferred to South Florida's new immigration detention facility known as Alligator Alcatraz in the Everglades, the singer confirmed in a phone call.
This isn’t the first time the Trump administration and immigration officials have tried to restrict access to immigration facilities.
Florida Democrat Rep. Angie Nixon visited “Alligator Alcatraz,” a new detention center in Florida built to house migrants, during a tour closed to the media. The congresswoman detailed to CNN’s Victor Blackwell what she saw at the caged facility,
Five Congress members and 20 state legislators inspected Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” and walked away with wildly different accounts of the facility’s conditions. Politico reported that a mix of Republicans and Democrats were allowed to tour the detention center in the Everglades of Ochopee,