DeSantis, Alligator Alcatraz
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A federal judge has ordered the remote detention camp in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz” to stop taking detainees and remove infrastructure added to the original airport site.
The findings raise questions about the DeSantis administration’s vetting of the companies that received Alligator Alcatraz contracts.
Gov. Ron DeSantis is pushing ahead with plans for a controversial immigrant-detention center in the Everglades despite a federal judge’s order to begin dismantling parts of the facility.