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An immigration detension center in the Everglades has been dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz." | Rebecca Blackwell, AP
August 28, 2025

‘Alligator Alcatraz’ could be empty within days

The immigration detention center is winding down even as the state fights an order to close the facility.…

By Kate Payne - Associated Press/Report for America and Mike Schneider - Associated Press

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President Donald Trump, Gov. Ron DeSantis and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and others, tour "Alligator Alcatraz," a new migrant detention facility at Dade-Collier Training and Transition facility, on July 1, 2025, in Ochopee. | Evan Vucci, AP
July 29, 2025

Who runs Alligator Alcatraz? A judge wants to know

U.S. District Judge Rodolfo Ruiz said there is confusion about the legal authority the detention center is operating under.…

By Jake Shore - WLRN

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The Baker County Sheriff's Office
September 1, 2023

Armor Health assailed over immigrant care at Baker jail

Immigrants held in the Baker County jail are victims of “systemic and ongoing medical neglect,” the ACLU says in a…

By Dan Scanlan

Department of Homeland Security

Department of Homeland Security