Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news — make a quick donation to Truthout today! As Florida’s Republican government moves to construct a sprawling new immigration detention center in the heart of the Everglades, nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz,” environmental groups and a wide range of other activists have begun to mobilize against it. Florida’s Republican attorney general,...
Florida has begun building a detention centre – dubbed the ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ – to temporarily hold migrants on an air strip in the Everglades. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the facility would be funded “in large part” by the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s shelter and services programme, which was previously used to...