State, feds in talks to close Alligator Alcatraz due to operating costs: NYT
DHS officials say the facility is too expensive to keep operating, with costs topping $1 million a day and nearly 1,400 detainees inside.
- Florida entered preliminary talks with the Trump administration to close the "Alligator Alcatraz" migrant detention facility in the Everglades, citing mounting operational costs that have strained state finances.
- The facility, opened last summer, has faced persistent criticism from the Miccosukee Tribe and environmental groups for disrupting sacred lands and wildlife habitats within the Everglades region.
- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis's administration has spent more than $1 million a day to operate the center, yet the state has not received the $608 million federal reimbursement promised.
- Although the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently overturned an injunction that would have closed the site, Department of Homeland Security officials now consider the center ineffective and too expensive.
- No official closure decision has been made, but preliminary talks highlight the facility's struggle to maintain operations amid ongoing litigation and the lack of anticipated federal funding.
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Immigration News Today: ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ to Reportedly Close
Just have a minute? Here are the top stories you need to know about immigration. This summary was featured in Documented’s Early Arrival newsletter. You can subscribe to receive it in your inbox three times per week here. Around the U.S. Federal, state officials discuss closure of ‘Alligator Alcatraz’: The infamous detention center in Florida’s Everglades may be shut down due to high costs, sources say. —New York Times [Paywall], Miami HeraldAir…
Ron DeSantis to do what to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’!? – The Horn News
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday that the immigration detention center known as “ Alligator Alcatraz ” always was meant to be temporary. His comments came on the same day that The New York Times reported state and federal officials were in early talks about shutting down the facility in the Florida Everglades that DeSantis said has processed and deported 22,000 detainees since it opened last summer. “At some point, we will, of course, bre…
'Alligator Alcatraz,' Too Expensive to Run, May Close
The New York Times reported Thursday morning that “Florida is in talks with the Trump administration” to shut down the facility dubbed by DeSantis’ administration as “Alligator Alcatraz,” adding that the talks are “preliminary but that “officials at the Department of Homeland Security have concluded that it is too expensive to keep operating the center.” The post ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ Too Expensive to Run, May Close appeared first on FlaglerLive.
What's the future going to look like for Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz?" A report says it could close soon.
State of Florida and federal officials are discussing the closure of the controversial "Alligator Alcatraz" immigration detention center, according to the New York Times.
Fla. Gov. DeSantis says it ‘would be great’ to shut down Alligator Alcatraz
Gov. Ron DeSantis is now backing plans to shutter Florida’s state-run immigration detention facility in the Everglades, 10 months after the state opened it and after spending hundreds of millions of dollars on its construction and operation.
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DeSantis says ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration detention center always was meant to be temporary
OCHOPEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday that the immigration detention center known as “ Alligator Alcatraz ” always was meant to be temporary.
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