Florida lawmakers visit Alligator Alcatraz
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Five Congress members and 20 state legislators inspected Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” and walked away with wildly different accounts of the facility’s conditions. Politico reported that a mix of Republicans and Democrats were allowed to tour the detention center in the Everglades of Ochopee,
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WPEC CBS 12 on MSNAlligator Alcatraz timeline: Journey of undocumented migrant facility in the EvergladesA timeline of the undocumented migrant facility nestled deep in the Florida Everglades named Alligator Alcatraz.
The Trump and DeSantis administrations have refused to release a roster of detainees, none of whom seem to appear in ICE's online database.
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People held at the brand new Florida immigration detention center that officials have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” say worms turn up in the food, toilets don’t flush and floors flood with fecal waste.
Hundreds of immigrants with no criminal charges in the United States have ended up at Alligator Alcatraz, a detention facility that state and federal officials have characterized as a place where “vicious” and “deranged psychopaths” are sent before they get deported, records obtained by the Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times show.
The mocking of immigrant detainees harks back to “the worst parts of our history” when similar jokes and tropes, such as “gator bait,” were used to dehumanize Black people and desensitize people to the harm and violence inflicted upon them, says ACLU Florida Executive Director Bacardi Jackson.