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Trump scored a partial win as a judge tossed one claim, but Florida legal battles over detainee rights continue.
While Alligator Alcatraz was promoted as a place where migrants with heinous criminal histories would be detained and quickly deported, records show it was largely used during its first month in
As thunder boomed on an ominous Sunday evening just outside of Alligator Alcatraz, over 200 people — most of them reverends, rabbis, pastors and people of assorted faiths — chanted in unison, “Shut it down” and “This is a preserve, not a prison” as cars and trucks zoomed behind them on Tamiami Trail.
A federal judge in Miami has dismissed part of a lawsuit that claimed detainees were denied access to the legal system at the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz.
A judge has dismissed part of a lawsuit from immigrant advocates after finding many of the migrants held at "Alligator Alcatraz" have received access to legal counsel.
A hiker has been hospitalized after an alligator attacked and bit her on a Florida hiking trail, authorities say. The woman, who has not been identified, was hiking on the Bird Rookery Swamp Trail in Collier County, between Naples and Fort Myers, when the incident took place on Sunday, August 17.
Other ICE detention centers like Alligator Alcatraz have been under consideration for other locations, including in North Florida, Indiana and Nebraska.