The state will also get $38 million from ICE for equipment and transportation involved in detaining non-citizens.
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Florida Awarded $608 Million Grant for Migrant Jails Under FEMA Program Read Post »
Homeland Security’s Kristi Noem mentioned plans to build similar immigration jails in Arizona, Nebraska, and Louisiana.
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DHS Plans More State-Run Extrajudicial Black Sites Like “Alligator Alcatraz” Read Post »
Trans people in prison are at the front lines of the increased targeting that trans people are facing under Trump.
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Being Trans Behind Bars in Florida Was Already Hard. Under Trump, It’s Worse. Read Post »
An appeals court has temporarily blocked a federal judge’s decision ordering Florida and federal officials to begin winding down operations at Alligator Alcatraz, the controversial immigration detention center in the Everglades that opened in July. As I reported last month, in response to a lawsuit filed in June by environmental groups, US District Judge Kathleen […]
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DeSantis Celebrates as Appeals Court Blocks Dismantling of Alligator Alcatraz Read Post »
Critics slammed the move, calling the jail an environmental threat that “has been functioning as an extrajudicial site.”
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Trump-Appointed Judges Block Order to Shut Down “Alligator Alcatraz” Read Post »
“It feels like history is slowly not repeating, but echoing,” tribe secretary William “Popeye” Osceola says.
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Miccosukee Tribe Lawsuit Challenges Environmental Harm at “Alligator Alcatraz” Read Post »
Earlier this month, Florida Rep. Anna Eskamani, a Democrat from Orlando, joined several state lawmakers on a tour inside Alligator Alcatraz. When Eskamani entered a large white tent where detainees are separated into chain-link fenced areas, each containing 32 beds and three toilets, the men began chanting “Libertad!”—which means liberty in Spanish. Eskamani and the […]
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Even before “Alligator Alcatraz,” Ron DeSantis had defined his political legacy by gleeful cruelty against immigrants.
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DeSantis Races to Open Immigrant Detention Camp in Swamp Amid Hurricane Season Read Post »
Florida’s attorney general announced that construction of the jail in the Big Cypress National Preserve had begun.
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Indigenous and Green Groups Protest ICE’s “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Everglades Read Post »
Deep in the Everglades, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration has swiftly begun construction of an ICE detention center on an airfield surrounded by wetlands that will house up to 1,000 detainees and could open as soon as next week. In a Friday interview with Fox News, DeSantis called the new center “Alligator Alcatraz” and said […]
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Environmentalists Sue to Stop Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Deportation Center Read Post »
The law is an “egregiously unconstitutional attempt to censor” free speech, the lawyer for the plaintiffs said.
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Appellate Court Says Florida’s Drag Show Ban Is Likely Unconstitutional Read Post »
“We are filing this lawsuit because we refuse to let them silence the people of Florida,” said one plaintiff.
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Group Sues Florida Officials Over Law Targeting Citizen-Led Ballot Initiatives Read Post »
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