At the brand new Everglades immigration detention center that officials have dubbed “ Alligator Alcatraz,” people held there say

J une 19 Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announces plans for a migrant detention center in the Everglades via X. The state has declared its official name to be Alligator Alcatraz. June 21 Protesters begin gathering near the proposed site at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport as trucks carrying supplies and fill dirt stream in.

Trump Opens "Alligator Alcatraz" Immigrant Detainment Facility in Florida Everglades originally appeared on L.A. Mag.

"Alligator Alcatraz will be checking in hundreds of criminal illegal aliens tonight," Florida Republican Attorney General James Uthmeier said.

President Donald Trump to head to Florida for opening of "Alligator Alcatraz" detention facility in the Everglades, supported by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis but opposed by environmentalists and critics.

President Donald Trump’s fight against America’s illegal border crossers now has serious teeth with a new migrant detention center slated for Florida’s Everglades — and state Attorney General James Uthmeier has already dubbed the facility Alligator Alcatraz.

The unbelievable cruelty of the DeSantis and Trump Administrations towards hard working, honest, and law abiding Hispanic, Haitian, and other foreign born residents of this state needs to stop,” Justin Mendoza-Routt,

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