1st deportation flight from Alligator Alcatraz
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New aerial footage is showing another view of the new high-security immigration detention center in Florida's Everglades coined "Alligator Alcatraz."
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday announced deportation flights had begun to take off from the so-called Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention facility in the Everglades.
What they’re trying to do, at the end of the day, is pretend like this facility is not governed by federal law,” said one attorney.
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The Trump administration announced on Friday that it would allocate over $600M in grants to states willing to build migrant detention centers modeled after 'Alligator Alcatraz.'
What has been done here has been remarkable,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday at a news conference at the site the state built in eight days deep in the Everglades, just west of President Donald Trump’s resort in Miami.
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Florida’s governor says the Trump administration is running flights from the Everglades detention center, but it’s not entirely clear where they’re going
A Central Florida man — legally in the United States, according to his attorneys — has been released from the state’s Alligator Alcatraz detention center, but remains in federal custody, one of those attorneys said Friday.