Florida Immigration Contracts Quietly Surged to $1.4 Billion in Disaster Dollars

Florida immigration contracts quietly surged to $1.4 billion in disaster dollars

MIAMI — Since Alligator Alcatraz’s closure in June, Florida’s emergency managers have committed almost half a billion more dollars toward arresting, detaining and deporting immigrants, promising at least $1.4 billion in disaster funds to the vendors who’ve built the state’s…

Florida immigration contracts quietly surged to $1.4B in disaster dollars

Almost none of the contracts’ amendments, worth hundreds of millions of dollars more after Alligator Alcatraz’s shutdown, were posted to the state’s transparency website.