Alligator Alcatraz, Florida
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Frankel Rips Into Florida’s $450M ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ Calling It an Embarrassing Political Stunt
Congresswoman Frankel criticizes a detention facility in the Florida Everglades, referred to as “Alligator Alcatraz,” calling it an environmental, financial, and moral failure. She highlights its threat to tribal lands,
State Sen. Shevrin Jones, a Democrat from Miami-Dade County, was also there and recalls that someone with a thermometer showed that the temperature at the entrance of one of the tents was 81 degrees. He noticed that one of the detainees was bare-chested, with his shirt wrapped around his head.
Don’t call it ‘Alligator Auschwitz,’ writes columnist Scott Maxwell. But do get informed about the human-rights allegations and secretive, no-bid contracts being handed out in Florida.
To quickly build and operate the migrant detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz, the DeSantis administration has already committed more than $200 million to private contractors, according to state documents reviewed by the Miami Herald. That’s about half the detention center’s estimated $450
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Bill Cotterell: Alligator Alcatraz a boon to both sides
The big complex out in the Everglades has plenty of beds, and it’s certainly meant to be a short-term stopover, but it’s no Holiday Inn.
The giddy, extremely online cruelty around the Florida detention facility reveals contempt for popular opinion.
Trump administration officials want “Alligator Alcatraz” to be a blueprint, but Democrats are pushing back on expansion
R. Bruce Anderson writes that whatever your political position may be, taking pleasure in the misery of other humans is spiritually corrupt.
Don’t call it ‘Alligator Auschwitz.’ But do get informed about the human-rights allegations and secretive, no-bid contracts being handed out in Florida
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