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This is going to impact Florida particularly hard, where the state’s own office of Economic and Demographic research acknowledges that a slow in population growth is negatively impacting the labor market, and that the best way to counteract that is through migration.
Advocates for immigrants and low-wage workers said the companies owe it to their drivers to speak out.
“Records show that Florida has awarded more than $350 million in contracts and purchase orders connected with the Everglades camp, which contractors raced to build in just eight days as the DeSantis and Trump administrations tried to outrun judicial oversight.”
How the libertarian project in Argentina is going under Javier Milei, with him being pelted by rocks and vegetables by the public after his government was implicated in a bribery scandal.
A dramatic, extremely worrying moment; over 61,000 people held in ICE detention. That is the highest number ever on record in United States history; roughly 6,000 higher than the previous record set under Trump six years ago, and over 21,000 higher than when Trump took office just seven months ago.
The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*
Also tonight: Judge Jia Cobb has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from dramatically scaling up its use of expedited removal on people arrested far from the southern border — a main pillar of its mass deportation campaign.
For this week's cover, New Times spoke with six men incarcerated at ECI about what it's like to live through the state's notoriously hot summers in air-conditionless cells. Read this week's cover story: miaminewtimes.com/news/life-inside-a-south-florida-prison-with-no-air-conditioning-23144257
A lot of politically connected vendors literally made hundreds of millions of dollars off taxpayers through no bid contracts in just two months of Alligator Alcatraz operating. Waste, fraud, and abuse.
Contractors are being furloughed and DHS is “moving detainees to other facilities.”
Also, Alligator Alcatraz might be shutting down for good and that’s a good thing. But a lot of politically connected companies have made off with a ton of money. Literally hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars. It's a big club, and you ain't in it.
That’s true.
Turns out setting up an immigration detention tent camp without legal authority in a protected swamp nature preserve with a dark sky designation, that had almost zero infrastructure, in the scorching hot Florida summer, during hurricane season, did not turn out well.
Univision reporting that a protest happened at Alligator Alcatraz in which remaining detainees were beat up by guards. Here you can hear the detainees describe the conditions on a phone call with Univision, with alarms blaring in the background 👇
The district presented several explanations for this year’s steep decline.
Yep, this means that her decision dismantling the site in 60 days is still in effect although the appeal is still pending
Judge Kathleen Williams DENIES motion to stay her decision dismantling Alligator Alcatraz.
True! We definitely should
El Gobierno ultraderechista de Argentina enmudece ante la revelaciĂłn de presuntos sobornos a los hermanos Milei
DeSantis was asked about Alligator Alcatraz being dismantled and said people are being deported quickly. They’re not. Most people have been transferred over to other detention facilities like Fort Bliss in Texas. Very strange to continue lying about something so easily disproven.
Could very well be, although that’s problematic on its own since Judge Williams has ordered materials to be taken out of the site due to its harmful environmental impact.
Why are luxury sports cars being transported into Alligator Alcatraz as the facility seems to be shutting down? Are taxpayer dollars being spent on this? Over $300 million spent so far in this place through no bid contracts.
$300 million in no bid contracts
Message from Florida Division of Emergency Management Executive Director Kevin Guthrie says “we are probably going to be down to 0 individuals within a few days.”
Initially a lot of people were being sent to Krome, but now most people I have been working with are being sent to Fort Bliss in Texas. I have also seen some people sent to the Glades County Detention Center.
Transfer buses leaving Alligator Alcatraz today.
People being held at the immigrant detention center in Florida known as "Alligator Alcatraz" face human rights abuses including denial of due process and legal counsel, according to a new federal lawsuit brought by the ACLU. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/20/aclu_alligator_alcatraz
Federal law “does not provide authority for state agencies to hold immigration detainees. And it certainly does not let them place detention in the hands of untrained, unsupervised private contractors who are not and cannot be deputized to perform immigration functions."
Glad to see this lawsuit.
(1/4) What’s happening at the ICE jail in the FL Everglades, the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz," is a moral outrage. The US govt is denying people food, hygiene, medical care, & even pressuring them to give up their legal rights in exchange for a blanket.
You can read the complaint here: www.aclu.org/documents/m-...
New lawsuit filed challenging the lack of legal authority to detain immigrants at Alligator Alcatraz. A network of state run extrajudicial black sites will not be allowed to proliferate.
The findings raise questions about the DeSantis administration’s vetting of the companies that received Alligator Alcatraz contracts.
People should remember that aside from the depraved treatment against those detained there, well over $300 million in taxpayer dollars were disbursed through no-bid contracts to politically connected vendors at Alligator Alcatraz. This was complete financial malfeasance.
Breaking News: A federal judge ordered that “Alligator Alcatraz,” a Florida immigration detention center, be shut down, at least temporarily, within 60 days.
It also appears that the order requires the dismantling of the camp to some degree after 60 days as the population drops due to attrition. If my reading is accurate, this is a BFD.
Big news out of Florida tonight! An environmental challenge has brought the use of the Everglades detention camp to a halt.
Federal Judge Kathleen Williams orders no more people transferred to Alligator Alcatraz!
Yet another case of ICE randomly accusing a man of being a Tren de Aragua member based on a vague vibes-based assessment that turned out to be obviously false.
Man who recently had a severe medical incident at Alligator Alcatraz and was transferred to another detention facility has been unable to contact his lawyers in any meaningful way despite his health continuing to decline 👇
"I must admit: I write this piece while starving – too hungry to think clearly, too weak to sit upright for long." a haunting account of a starving Palestinian academic in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
About 336 people still detained in Alligator Alcatraz per information shared on a tour given to members of congress today.
NEW: The 9th Circuit permits the Trump admin to terminate TPS for Honduras, Nicaragua, and Nepal for now. This population includes 50,000 people who have been here legally since 1998 and will now have to leave the US or risk deportation. Many have no path to permanent status.
Another of the many reasons as to why putting a detention camp made of tents in the Everglades, in the middle of the scorching hot Florida summer, was and still is a horrible and irresponsible idea.
New: Florida keeps getting hotter — yet most state prisons remain without AC. We spoke with six men at Everglades Correctional Institution about what it’s like to endure summers in an AC-less cell. www.miaminewtimes.com/news/life-in...
“Putting people in tents in the middle of the Everglades is a great tool to make them give up their cases,” said one immigration attorney
“It’s a lot of abuse, what we’re enduring here in Alligator.” When Luis Manuel Rivas Velásquez collapsed in “Alligator Alcatraz” & was taken to the hospital, detainees pounded on the bars of their cages for help. A phone call details the facility’s systemic neglect, @alexmar.bsky.social reports.
It's part of Florida Immigrant Coalition's ongoing campaign against Alligator Alcatraz.
"A federal judge will hear arguments Monday over whether detainees at a temporary immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades have been denied their legal rights." Significant hearing today in federal court in South Florida.
Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning. The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc
Planes used for deportation flights are flying without tail numbers so they’re harder for activists and watchdogs to track. The Department of Homeland Security has yet to comment. trib.al/XHW4HC8
There should be hearings demanding answers from DHS leadership. But the party currently in control of the Congress voted to turbocharge this.
“There’s a dissonance between how Americans, especially some lawmakers, talk about Cubans fleeing the island and how they are now being treated in the United States.”
BREAKING: Washington, D.C., files a lawsuit challenging Trump's federal police takeover after his administration moves to intensify control.
Get ready to see billions of public dollars funneled to private prison contractors.
Last month, we reported that the IRS was preparing a system that would share millions of taxpayers' data with ICE. Now we can confirm data was officially transferred ⤵️
Department of Homeland Security agents stopped cars on 14th St NW in DC last night “for seat belt violations and broken taillights” (via @washingtonpost.com)
The DeSantis administration is making arrangements to hold immigrant detainees at a North Florida prison as a federal judge weighs whether to temporarily shut down Alligator Alcatraz, the makeshift immigration detention camp in the Everglades.
Did you know that the Founders were so vehemently against having a standing army that might do what Comer is calling for that they explicitly wrote into the Constitution that Congress has to reauthorize the existence of the Army every two years or the entire thing has to disband?
As has been made clear before, the claim that everyone at Alligator Alcatraz has final orders of removals is just a straight up lie, point blank.
The Trump administration is facing increasing pressure over conditions at immigration detention centers, including the Florida facility known as Alligator Alcatraz.
Judge Kathleen Williams will decide whether to issue an injunction on operations at the site.
HUGE. The first major court victory involving conditions of confinement at ICE field offices. The judge bars detention in any cell which isn't: - Restricted by capacity - Has mats for people to sleep on overnight - Is cleaned 3 times a day - Provides hygiene supplies - Offers free legal calls
More transport buses leaving Alligator Alcatraz today, escorted by Florida Highway Patrol vehicles.
A 4-year-old boy’s ongoing care for stage 4 kidney cancer was interrupted when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers illegally deported him, his sister and mother “without even a semblance of due process.”
Venezuelans make up the largest share of migrants deported to third countries since President Donald Trump returned to the White House, according to a Miami Herald analysis of federal data.
We keep hearing of medical emergencies and disease spreading at Alligator Alcatraz, have documented high frequency of ambulances going in and out, and now high frequency of transport buses going in and out, and the state is still refusing to clarify what’s happening inside.
Mark Peterson’s black-and-white images of ICE agents evoke film noir and the urban-crime photography of the 1930s and ’40s. “If someone is doing everything right, and then they still get detained, it’s a crime scene,” he said.
An interfaith prayer vigil was held for a second week in a row outside the gates of the detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.” The event included an account from a detainee via phone who said the conditions are "very bad."
ABC: “Suleiman Al-Obeid, former Palestinian national soccer team player and star of Gaza's Al-Shati'a Services Club, killed by Israeli forces while waiting to get humanitarian aid…” abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
Fiancée of someone currently detained in Alligator Alcatraz details how her loved one has been in there for nearly a month. Conditions are so bad that he tried to commit suicide, and he has fungus due to constant water intrusion into the tent where he is caged.
Transport buses going in and out of Alligator Alcatraz at 12:29am, 1:40am, 1:51am, and 3:11am.
The Trump administration’s move to push out IRS Commissioner Billy Long came after the agency said it couldn’t release some information on undocumented taxpayers
Yelenis lleva más de tres dĂ©cadas en EE UU y ha sido madre y abuela en este paĂs. Ahora, el Gobierno de Trump le ha dado hasta octubre para marcharse por un delito por el que fue condenada hace 28 años
Civil rights lawyers say many migrant detainees in Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz" are being barred from meeting regularly with attorneys and are being held in dangerous conditions.
A person detained in Alligator Alcatraz had a severe medical incident, was unresponsive, and staff didn’t even know how to take his pulse. He had to be hospitalized.
“Notably, there was no agreement with the Florida Division of Emergency Management, which has overseen the construction and operation of the site since its inception.” Again, this means Alligator Alcatraz is operating without legal authority or jurisdiction to detain immigrants.
Job description from Montreal-based Alligator Alcatraz security contractor cites that “employees may be exposed to extreme cold or hot weather conditions, fumes, or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and loud noise.”
We are at or near full employment. There are at least 7.5 million undocumented workers. There are not 7.5 million Americans ready, willing, and able to take those jobs, so positions will go unfilled. That means businesses will close, the economy will shrink, and Americans will *lose* jobs.
A federal judge issued a fresh nationwide block on President Donald Trump’s efforts to end birthright citizenship, reiterating that the executive order is likely to be found unconstitutional.
More ambulances going in and out of Alligator Alcatraz today at 12:35 pm, 1:44 pm, 6:06 pm, and 7:02 pm.
Correct. This doesn’t change anything. It means that Alligator Alcatraz is operating without legal authority or jurisdiction to detain immigrants. It’s an extrajudicial black site.
Federal judge has issued a TRO on construction in Alligator Alcatraz for 14 days, meaning no new construction, building, infrastructure, paving, filling, lights, etc.
Weiser says she was informed she would be able to meet with her client after being given the runaround for weeks and told an immigration court had “no jurisdiction.” “This is a disaster,” she says. “They’ve taken these people, but they have no process for them to see lawyers.”
The federal government and the state of Florida failed to produce legal agreements giving them authority to detain immigrants at Alligator Alcatraz, which continues to operate as an extrajudicial black site. Today is the deadline set in federal court for agreements to be shown.
Florida, unlike the federal government, can be sued for civil rights violations and punished with monetary damages.
And that Kristi Noem says this is the model for other sites like this one. They want a network of state-run extrajudicial black sites across the country.
Correct. Two federal judges have given them until tomorrow to show them.
“On rainy days, she said, water pours into the tents. She described the conditions as miserable, not to forget — the constant battle with mosquitos.”
New from me: Florida has failed to show legal agreements giving the state authority to detain immigrants in Alligator Alcatraz, despite two federal judges ordering them to produce them. The place is basically operating as an extrajudicial black site. It’s illegal.
Florida has begun awarding no-bid contracts to open up another immigration detention camp in the northern part of the state.
