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Will Camp Blanding be the 'Alligator Alcatraz' of Northeast Florida? Here's what we know.
Following the opening of 'Alligator Alcatraz', Camp Blanding is set to become the state’s second immigration detention center ...
Alligator Alcatraz: Kona Ice, restaurants clarify after their trucks are seen at facility
Kona Ice, restaurants explain, apologize after being seen at Alligator Alcatraz, the new immigration processing center in the ...
Lawmakers blast possibility children could be sent to Alligator Alcatraz
Florida Democratic lawmakers are traveling to inspect the site as they bristle over the idea of children detained.
What is Alligator Alcatraz? Here are the details on the new detention facility
Trump celebrates Alligator Alcatraz grand opening, as immigration officials continue the search for escaped detainees from ...
Florida food trucks face backlash after catering controversy at Alligator Alcatraz
A Mexican food truck company is apologizing to its customers for participating in a catering event at Alligator Alcatraz.
First detainees arrive at Alligator Alcatraz facility in Everglades
On Wednesday night, workers replaced the signs in front of the training facility with ones that read "Alligator Alcatraz." ...
DeSantis and Trump to visit ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ in Everglades on opening day Tuesday
The detention immigration facility is located in an idle airstrip in the Everglades that the DeSantis administration recently ...
Alligator Alcatraz opened Tuesday ready for a hurricane — but not a summer shower
Alligator Alcatraz opened Tuesday without a water view. Then it rained. Shortly after President Donald Trump left the brand ...
It’s always an ‘emergency.’ The ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ backstory | Column
On June 19, Uthmeier announced “Alligator Alcatraz,” and suddenly all the news stories about Uthmeier being a law-breaker ...
Trump’s Everglades Prison Can’t Even Withstand a Routine Rainstorm. Ron DeSantis Wants to Open It Anyway.
Shortly after President Donald Trump left the brand new detention facility to hold immigrants in the middle of the Everglades ...
First group of migrants arrives at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
The first group of migrants arrived in Florida’s migrant detention center, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” on Wednesday night, ...
Alligator Alcatraz has opened in the Florida Everglades. Here are some takeaways
A state-run detention facility for migrants has opened in the Florida Everglades. Alligator Alcatraz — that is the official name — was assembled in eight days and opened on July 1. President Donald ...