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Alligator Alcatraz will be a blight on Everglades

Alligator Alcatraz: Friends of the Everglades files lawsuit to block immigration prison

"Gov. Ron DeSantis has plowed ahead with developing the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport ... in hopes of detaining up to 5,000 people there."

Orlando Sentinel · 2d

Florida eyes 2nd immigration detention center to join ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

The second center would be at Camp Blanding, a Florida National Guard training site southwest of Jacksonville.

WPLG Local 10 · 3h

Environmentalists rally against ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention project in the Everglades

Environmental activists rallied Saturday near the Dade-Collier airport to protest construction of a state-run immigration detention center in the heart of the Everglades, a project critics have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.

1don MSN

Environmental groups sue to block migrant detention center rising in Florida Everglades

Environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit to block a migrant detention center being built on an airstrip in the heart of ...

3don MSN

‘Alligator Alcatraz’ for deportations could devastate Everglades, Miami-Dade mayor says

The plan is on a fast track by Gov. Ron DeSantis, even though the owner, Miami-Dade County, is cool on the idea.

USA Today3d

Alligator Alcatraz? As a gator, I won't work with ICE | Opinion

Apparently, the federal government has already signed off on this invasive Everglades facility, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis enthusiastically supporting the construction of a 5,000-bed detention ...

WGCU Public Media6d

Protest in Everglades focuses on proposed immigrant detention camp at abandoned jetport, draws hundreds to remote site

Several conservation-related organizations gathered in the Everglades Sunday morning to protest a state-proposed plan to ...

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