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Florida tribe fights new 'Alligator Alcatraz' migrant facility near Everglades homes
Florida's Miccosukee tribe challenges new Everglades detention facility over environmental and safety concerns, as Trump ...
Trump tours Florida’s immigration detention center in the Everglades
President Donald Trump visited a new immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades on Tuesday as state officials ...
'Defend the sacred': Protesters rally against Florida's new detention center in Everglades
Indigenous leaders with ancestral ties to the area spanning thousands of years have condemned the state's plans to construct ...
Environmental groups file lawsuit to stop migrant detention center in FL Everglades
Environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit to block the migrant detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Florida ...
Largest group of flamingos in a decade spotted in Florida Everglades
A photographer was taking part in an aerial bird survey via helicopter over Florida Bay when the flamingos were first spotted ...
Detention center driving out wildlife, damaging Everglades, critics contend
The sales pitch for erecting a detention center for detainees in the heart of the Everglades is the swamp and creatures ...
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Florida Democrats demand Gov. DeSantis 'abandon' the 'Alligator Alcatraz' project
Florida’s River of Grass is no place for a prison,” wrote the Florida Democrats in Congress in their letter to the governor.
Florida state lawmaker says Trump is building ‘modern-day concentration camps’
Florida Rep. Angie Nixon claimed Trump is building "modern day concentration camps" following the opening of a 5,000-person ...