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Officials claim 'Alligator Alcatraz' can withstand hurricane season, but tents leaked after one rainstorm
A good lil storm passed over us here at 'Alligator Alcatraz.’ Here's what it looks & sounds like inside one of these tents.
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Inside the Eight-Day Rise of ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ and the Storm It’s Stirring in Florida’s Everglades
If someone escapes, you know, there’s a lot of alligators. No one’s going anywhere.” That’s Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, ...
Lawmakers blast possibility children could be sent to Alligator Alcatraz
Florida Democratic lawmakers are traveling to inspect the site as they bristle over the idea of children detained.
Despite promises of FEMA funds, Florida has so far received no federal money for 'Alligator Alcatraz'
In a new court filing, the Department of Homeland Security says that so far, Florida has not even applied for any federal ...
Republican donors and Florida’s hurricane know-how helped build ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ so quickly
Florida has converted an isolated airport in the Everglades into a massive immigration detention center called "Alligator ...
DeSantis and Trump to visit ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ in Everglades on opening day Tuesday
The detention immigration facility is located in an idle airstrip in the Everglades that the DeSantis administration recently ...
Everglades Alcatraz rose without a review or citizen input. Nonprofits are fighting back
Truck traffic, blazing lights, sewage: 55 years later, Alligator Alcatraz steamrolls Marjory Stoneman Douglas-led effort to ...