Miami-Dade mayor seeks ongoing access to Alligator Alcatraz
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Worms in the food. Toilets that don’t flush. Floors flooded with fecal waste. Lack of access to attorneys and medical care. These are the conditions described by some of the people held at a
"Alligator Alcatraz" is the nickname for a planned temporary immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades. President Trump is visiting July 1.
In a newly filed legal notice, environmental groups accused the government agencies of ignoring even more environmental regulations while building and opening Alligator Alcatraz, despite the governor’s pledge to have “zero impacts” on the Everglades.
A Cuban musician who says he's a lawful permanent resident detailed inhumane and unsanitary conditions at "Alligator Alcatraz."
Detainees are telling their families about what it’s like to live in cells inside heavy-duty tents erected on an airstrip in Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida.
DarkSky International in 2016 designated Florida’s Big Cypress National Preserve as the nation’s first preserve to achieve “dark sky” status.
Alligator Alcatraz’ is located in the vast Florida swamps of the Everglades, but where is it in the Everglades?