Alligator Alcatraz: ICE to detain migrants in middle of remote Florida swamp

Facility, set to house 1,000 people, will be built on the site of an abandoned runway

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Facility, set to house 1,000 people, will be built on the site of an abandoned runway

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Remote detention facility to house up to 5,000 migrants, who will have ‘nowhere to go’.

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The facility could be completed within months and have the capacity to hold around 1,000 people.

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DHS will help fund the Florida state project — which aims to detain undocumented immigrants in a remote part of the Everglades.

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Surrounded by alligator infested swamps, BBC Mundo visited the site forming part of the Trump administration's mass deportation…

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Environmental groups, immigration advocates and Native Americans decry idea to set up the outdoor detention camp

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration opened the facility last July to support the immigration crackdown by the…

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