US EditionLawmakers visit ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ but some wonder how much they’ll get to see
FLORIDA EVERGLADES, JUL 14 – Democratic lawmakers criticized poor conditions and restricted access at the 3,000-bed Everglades detention center built to expand migrant detention capacity, amid legal and environmental disputes.
- On Saturday, July 12, Florida lawmakers were granted their first opportunity to tour the newly built Everglades immigration detention center, nicknamed 'Alligator Alcatraz,' following coordination with state and federal authorities.
- The tour followed the denial of access on July 3 to five Democratic lawmakers who sued Governor Ron DeSantis on July 10 for blocking their legally granted right to visit the facility without prior notice.
- Democratic lawmakers described the center as overcrowded and unsanitary with detainees reporting food with worms, flooded toilets, high temperatures around 83–85 degrees, and denial of contact with detainees.
- U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said, 'This place needs to be shut the hell down,' while a Republican official called complaints political theater and the facility clean and well-run with functioning air conditioning.
- The contrasting accounts suggest ongoing disputes over conditions at the 3,000-bed center, which aims to expand migrant detention capacity as part of a tough immigration response under President Trump and Governor DeSantis.
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(L-R) Adrien Wood, Aeriana Wood, and Juliana Wood have a selfie taken by Michael Race in front of the Alligator Alcatraz sign at the entrance to the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport on July 10, 2025 in Ochopee. The site is the location of the state-managed immigration detention facility in the Florida Everglades that officials have named “Alligator Alcatraz.” (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)Do you think concentration camps are cool…
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The name for Florida’s migrant detention center, Alligator Alcatraz, is a nod to the facility’s remote location atop an idle airstrip in the Florida Everglades teeming with alligators and pythons. […] The post Ron DeSantis claims ‘zero’ environmental impact by Alligator Alcatraz. That’s false appeared first on Poynter.
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