'Alligator Alcatraz' Site Given Back to Miami-Dade County
Miami-Dade County will review conservation, transfer or sale options as Florida ends the detention operation that processed nearly 30,000 people, officials said.
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Florida Accused of Withholding Alligator Alcatraz Funding Evidence
MIAMI, Fla. — Environmental groups challenging Florida’s controversial Everglades immigration detention center have filed an amended federal lawsuit alleging state and federal officials withheld key information showing Florida had sought federal funding for the facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz.” The amended complaint, filed Wednesday, adds new allegations to the ongoing legal battle over the detention center at the Dade-Collier Training and…
Miami-Dade regains control of "Alligator Alcatraz" site, eyes Everglades restoration
Miami-Dade County has regained control of the Dade-Collier airport property that housed the "Alligator Alcatraz" detention facility, and is now pursuing permanent conservation of the land.
'Alligator Alcatraz' site given back to Miami-Dade County
The state of Florida has returned control of the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport – the make-shift detention facility established in the Florida Everglades known as "Alligator Alcatraz' – to Miami-Dade County, following the closure of the detention facility operation.
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After a year of operations, marked by a daily cost of more than $1 million and international allegations of treatment that Amnesty International described as “torture”, the property has been handed over again to local authorities with significant damage to its infrastructure and soil integrity, damage that the county now demands that Governor Ron DeSantis’s administration repair before any subsequent step. The post Miami-Dade recovers the land o…
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