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‘Alligator Alcatraz’ First Amendment Claim Switches US Courts

Detainees at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention facility can continue to allege that officials violated the ...

Second federal case targeting ‘Alligator Alcatraz' unveils major change at immigration court

Those immigration bond hearings will now take place at the Krome Detention Center, but despite that major change, attorneys for the ACLU allege those being held at the controversial detention center ...
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'Liberty to the oppressed': Faith, activism at the first Catholic mass outside Alligator Alcatraz

On a sweltering afternoon in the Everglades, faith and activism intersected — as the nonprofit Guatemalan Maya Center ...

‘Shut it down.' Every Sunday, they come to pray outside Alligator Alcatraz

As thunder boomed on an ominous Sunday evening just outside of Alligator Alcatraz, over 200 people - most of them reverends, ...

'It’s like you’re dead alive': Families, advocates allege inhumane conditions at 'Alligator Alcatraz'

Immigration attorneys and advocates are raising concerns about what they say are inhumane conditions at the "Alligator ...

Construction at ‘Alligator Alcatraz' could be halted over environmental concerns

Construction of “Alligator Alcatraz” could be halted indefinitely as a federal judge considered whether the development on ...

Florida to open ‘Deportation Depot’ at shuttered prison weeks after launching ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ facility

Florida's DeSantis unveils new immigration detention center dubbed 'Deportation Depot' to expand deportations.