Alligator Alcatraz to Close Within a Week, with Final Detainees Already Moved Out: Report
Companies were told to begin full demobilization as the $1.2 billion detention center’s final detainees were transferred or deported, officials said.
- On Monday, state contractors began "full demobilization" of Florida's Alligator Alcatraz migrant detention center, quietly closing a $1.2 billion experiment once hailed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and President Donald Trump as a model for other states.
- Escalating operational costs primarily drove the facility's closure, with total expenses projected to exceed $1 billion; Florida still owes vendors at least $600 million for work on the detention center and a second lockup in Baker County.
- Amnesty International previously deemed the facility's conditions a form of torture, citing reports of routine shackling, physical abuse by guards, and detainees confined in 2-by-2 foot cage-like structures exposed to elements for hours without sufficient water or food.
- The final detainees left the facility last week, either transferred to other centers or deported to third countries; Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier stated the site would return to its original use as a training airport.
- While the U.S. government agreed to a $608.4 million reimbursement grant for Florida's immigration activities, the funding remains tied up in legal challenges and other issues, leaving taxpayers to cover the remainder of the billion-dollar project.
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OCHOPEE (United States), June 26 — The controversial “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention center – a costly Florida facility that became a symbol of US President Donald Trump’s deportation drive – has shut down after less than a year in operation, officials said Thursday.Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, appearing at the remote Everglades site with White House border czar Tom Homan, said the facility no longer held any detainees and had fulfi…
Vendors Begin Dismantling Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz
Source: Joe Raedle / Getty While Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have been evasive about the future of Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz, it appears the facility is coming to a permanent close, as vendors received notice on Monday that they could begin dismantling the site. The New York Times reports that state officials informed vendors on Monday that they could begin taking down tents, fences, trailers, an…
Florida Pulls the Plug on Alligator Alcatraz Before Its One-Year Mark
Contractors working at the migrant detention facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz” have received orders to begin “full demobilization” of the site, multiple sources confirmed to CBS News Miami, marking the effective end of a $1.2 billion project that opened less than a year ago. Florida emergency management officials followed up Tuesday by directing contractors to begin physically dismantling the facility and make “significant progress” by Wedn…
Vendors told to start dismantling ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention center
Crews began dismantling a state-run immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades on Monday, signaling its closure even as state and federal officials continued to say little about the shutdown of a year-old facility that they once praised on a near-daily basis.
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