ICE Detention Center Is a Sin Against Nature
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The meeting will address a proposal for corrections officers to transport ICE detainees from the Orange County Jail to immigration facilities, including “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Everglades. Elected officials and immigration rights advocates are planning to speak about Orange County’s involvement with ICE.
If adopted by the county commission Tuesday, an amended agreement with the federal government would authorize county correctional officers to transport immigration detainees at the request of ICE.
The state of Florida has opened a migrant detention center in the Everglades. Its official name is Alligator Alcatraz, a reference to the former maximum security federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay.
"I've called, I've emailed everybody and their grandmother and their grandmother's sister. Nobody emails you back and nobody calls you back," said one immigration attorney.
Trump said the camp would hold "the most vicious people on the planet," but a list obtained by the Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Tribune says otherwise.
ICE received additional funding from President Trump's "big, beautiful bill," and Alligator Alcatraz began operating.
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Tom Homan slams critics of the Florida Everglades detention facility 'Alligator Alcatraz,' citing high migrant death toll concerns during Biden's presidency.
Rep. Darren Soto (D-FL) was asked about the ICE detention facility dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" in Florida's Everglades.