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First immigration detainees arrive at 'Alligator Alcatraz'

FLORIDA EVERGLADES, JUL 2 – The facility was built in eight days with a 3,000 detainee capacity and cost $450 million annually, aiming to reduce overcrowding in immigration detention centers.

  • The first group of immigrants has arrived at a new detention center in the Florida Everglades, referred to as 'Alligator Alcatraz,' according to a spokesperson for Attorney General James Uthmeier.
  • The facility has an initial capacity for about 3,000 detainees, as stated by DeSantis.
  • Protests from environmental groups and Native American tribes have arisen, arguing the center threatens the Everglades and is on sacred land, along with concerns about heat and mosquitoes for detainees.
  • State officials argue that the location is a deterrent, with its name meant to convey a strong message about conditions there.
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“We will send a diplomatic note so that the Mexican detainees [in Alligator] will be immediately returned to our country,” said Claudia Sheinbaum, asked about the arrests of migrants who are already beginning to be transferred to Florida’s detention center, a prison that was opened to satisfaction by Donald Trump last Tuesday. The president said they will proceed in the same way they have already done with Guantánamo and recalled that communicat…

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The first group of migrants arrived at a new detention center deep down in Florida’s Everglades that authorities named “Alcatraz de los caimans,” a spokesman for the Republican state attorney general, James Uthmeier, told The Associated Press

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Miami. The first group of migrants was taken to the new detention center deep down in the Everglades, Florida, which authorities call “Alcatraz de los caimans.” “Next stop: get back to where they came from,” declared the Republican state attorney general, James Uthmeier, in X.

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South Florida Reporter broke the news in on Wednesday, July 2, 2025.
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