Alcatraz, Alligator
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ICE received additional funding from President Trump's "big, beautiful bill," and Alligator Alcatraz began operating.
Trump is celebrating — and even joking about — the harsh conditions of the controversial immigration detention facility in Florida.
Demonstrators gathered at the entrance to the new Florida Everglades migrant detention center dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" as President Trump made an opening-day visit to the controversial facility on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump toured the new Florida migrant holding facility aka "Alligator Alcatraz" as hundreds of protesters lined up outside.
The plan to build an immigration detention facility at Camp Blanding in Clay County is meeting with community pushback on the heels of the opening of Alligator Alcatraz in the Florida Everglades.
The mocking of immigrant detainees harks back to “the worst parts of our history” when similar jokes and tropes, such as “gator bait,” were used to dehumanize Black people and desensitize people to the harm and violence inflicted upon them, says ACLU Florida Executive Director Bacardi Jackson.
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Florida lawmakers got their first tour of the new migrant detention facility in the Everglades called Alligator Alcatraz. Democratic lawmakers had been asking for a tour for weeks after detainees claimed there were "inhumane" conditions inside the facility.