US EditionMiccosukee Tribe holds interfaith prayer service outside Alligator Alcatraz
COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA, JUL 20 – The Miccosukee Tribe led a multi-faith prayer service at Alligator Alcatraz, where about 600 detainees face harsh conditions in a facility with capacity for 3,000, organizers said.
- Alligator Alcatraz in the Everglades is characterized as a de facto concentration camp, turned into a right-wing meme, highlighting its $225 million cost.
- Amid a push for tougher border measures, enforcement has evolved into a spectator sport, as Vice President JD Vance said at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference.
- Benny Johnson, conservative commentator, compares the entrance to Jurassic Park and touts official merchandise, illustrating meme culture, while supporters revel in alleged inhumane conditions.
- Members of the Miccosukee Tribe organized a three-hour interfaith prayer service at Alligator Alcatraz, replacing protests, and Ant Hatcher said `It feels like being an earthling again`.
- Recent polling suggests Americans are turning against Trump's immigration agenda, while Florida’s top emergency official asked a federal judge on Monday to block environmentalists’ lawsuit, indicating declining support and legal hurdles ahead.
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Immigrant groups, family members call for closure of ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ and demand emergency health screenings for detainees - WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports
OCHOPEE, Fla. (WSVN) — Immigration rights groups and family members of the detainees at the controversial immigrant detention center “Alligator Alcatraz” are speaking out and demanding sweeping action, including calling for its immediate closure, emergency health screenings and the relocation of all detainees amid growing concerns about the alleged deplorable conditions they’re being housed in. The detention center in the Everglades has been op…
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Winston-Salem Journal'Trumptilian' prison is a hellhole
Many things are wrong with the Florida migrant detention center officially named "Alligator Alcatraz," but least of these are the gators and pythons that populate the environmentally sensitive Everglades, where the prison is located.
Morganton News Herald
'Trumptilian' migrant prison is a dehumanizing hellhole
Many things are wrong with the Florida migrant detention center officially named "Alligator Alcatraz," but least of these are the gators and pythons that populate the environmentally sensitive Everglades, where the prison is located.
Journal Gazette & Times-Courier
‘Trumptilian’ migrant prison is a dehumanizing hellhole
Many things are wrong with the Florida migrant detention center officially named “Alligator Alcatraz,” but least of these are the gators and pythons that populate the environmentally sensitive Everglades, where the prison is located.
Environmentalists' lawsuit to halt ‘Alligator Alcatraz' filed in wrong court: Official
Florida’s top emergency official asked a federal judge on Monday to resist a request by environmentalists to halt an immigration detention center, known as Alligator Alcatraz, in the middle of the Florida Everglades because their lawsuit was filed in the wrong jurisdiction.
Several prisoners waiting to be expelled report the lack of adequate sanitation and other problems, denied by state officials
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