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Faith leaders rally weekly at Alligator Alcatraz, urge humane treatment for detainees

Religious leaders, advocates and family members of detainees gathered for a vigil outside Alligator Alcatraz. Officials deny their claims.
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Legal Access Denied? Inside Alligator Alcatraz's Detention Issues

An investigation into Alligator Alcatraz, the first state-run migrant detention center, has revealed significant barriers ...

How Florida’s political disruptor spent his summer

ON SATURDAY — Florida celebrated its first ever Bob Graham Day in commemoration of the late governor and senator. A law ...

Florida’s illegal immigration detention center is a constitutional nightmare | Opinion

Alligator Alcatraz violates the Constitution, harms the environment and dehumanizes immigrants, says UM law professor | ...

Trump's big bill is powering his mass deportations. Congress is starting to ask questions

Trump border czar Tom Homan insists they're detaining and deporting the “worst of the worst.” But polling shows Americans' ...

Environmental concerns could halt construction at Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration jail

The fate of a makeshift immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” hangs in the balance ...
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'Our immigration system is broken': What's at stake in Monday's 'Alligator Alcatraz' hearing

A federal judge in Miami will hear arguments on Monday in a case over the controversial immigration detention center in the ...

Uthmeier said judge who sanctioned him should visit Alligator Alcatraz. She’s down

Florida’s attorney general welcomed judges overseeing Alligator Alcatraz cases to visit the detention center. One of them ...

Judge to rule in a week on future of Alligator Alcatraz as groups seek injunction

Alligator Alcatraz came to life in June after Florida's attorney general announced on social media that a detention center would be built in Collier.

Judge delays ruling on "Alligator Alcatraz" as environmental groups push for shutdown

Environmentalists and the Miccosukee Tribe are urging U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams to issue a preliminary injunction ...

Judge to hear arguments on halting ‘Alligator Alcatraz' construction over environmental concerns

A federal judge is set to hear closing arguments Wednesday over whether to stop construction indefinitely at an immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” as she ...