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Lawmakers visit ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ after being blocked
Florida lawmakers are touring a controversial immigration detention center in the Everglades. The facility, dubbed "Alligator ...
Florida lawmakers allowed into ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ say detainees packed into cages
Deep in the hazardous and ecologically fragile Everglades, hundreds of migrants are confined in cages in a makeshift tent ...
Florida lawmakers tour ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ leave with more questions than answers
Upon emerging from sprawling facility, Democrats and Republicans provided vastly different accounts of what they saw within ...
Five more large-scale detention facilities like ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ coming soon, Noem says
The announcement follows shortly after the opening of Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz," a new immigrant detention facility ...
Before it was Alligator Alcatraz, this airstrip sparked fury and changed America’s landscape
Alligator Alcatraz has triggered pride in the MAGA world, and fury in an unlikely bipartisan mix of South Floridians. Decades ...
Florida lawmakers describe Alligator Alcatraz conditions after visiting facility for the first time
CBS News Miami's Steve Maugeri spoke with the lawmakers who got an inside look at the controversial migrant detention center.
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Company's Alligator Alcatraz contracts followed donation to the Florida GOP
A Texas-based company gave $10,000 to Florida's Republican Party days before getting state contracts to help with ...
Florida officials reveal criminal backgrounds of migrants held at 'Alligator Alcatraz'
The Florida Attorney General's office revealed serious criminal backgrounds of detainees at Alligator Alcatraz facility, ...
Florida lawmakers who were denied access to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ sue Gov. DeSantis
Five Florida state lawmakers who were denied access to a new immigration detention center in the Everglades are suing Gov.
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Republicans tour Alligator Alcatraz and joke detainees shouted, ‘Vote Trump!’
Florida Sen. Blaise Ingoglia wore a University of Florida golf polo with an alligator icon to a guided tour of Alligator ...