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Kristi Noem 'Bragging' About Using FEMA Funds for 'Alligator Alcatraz' Resurfaces After Deadly Texas Flood

As Texans mourn the loss of life from devastating July 4 floods, backlash grows over Kristi Noem's decision to use FEMA funds on "Alligator Alcatraz."

Latin Times

Major DeSantis contributor was awarded Alligator Alcatraz contract

Everglades facility is already targeted by lawsuits from environmental groups who say DeSantis overstepped authority to speed development

The Independent UK

Florida Lawmakers Barred Entry From Alligator Alcatraz After Expressing 'Humanitarian Concerns'

Democratic Florida lawmakers who attempted to enter "Alligator Alcatraz" on Thursday were barred after they expressed "humanitarian concerns" about the new Everglades detention center.

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Florida Lawmakers Barred Entry From 'Alligator Alcatraz' After Expressing 'Humanitarian Concerns'

Democratic Florida lawmakers who attempted to enter "Alligator Alcatraz" on Thursday were barred after they expressed "humanitarian concerns" about the new Everglades detention center.

Latin Times

Americans aren’t on board with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’, new survey shows

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The Independent UK

Food truck companies face backlash for catering ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

A TikToker filmed Kona Ice, Churro Mania, Elote Lovers and Ms.Cheezious food trucks entering the detention facility in the Florida Everglades

The Independent UK

Florida Lawmakers Sound Alarm Over Plans 'To Send Pregnant Women & Children' to 'Alligator Alcatraz'

Democratic lawmakers in Florida are raising alarm over documents suggesting immigrant children and pregnant women could be detained at 'Alligator Alcatraz.'

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Democratic lawmakers denied entry to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration jail

Florida state lawmakers call blockage ‘a blatant abuse of power and an attempt to conceal human rights violations’

The Guardian - US

Almost half of Americans disapprove of Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’, new poll shows

Just a third of respondents to survey approved of new Everglades detention center

The Independent UK

Republican donors and Florida's hurricane know-how helped build 'Alligator Alcatraz' so quickly

Florida has converted an isolated airport in the Everglades into a massive immigration detention center called "Alligator Alcatraz."

The Independent UK

Three Contractors Helping Build 'Alligator Alcatraz' Reportedly Donated To DeSantis And Florida Republicans

Three contractors helping build the migrant detention center dubbed Alligator Alcatraz have reportedly donated money to the Florida GOP and Governor Ron DeSantis

Latin Times

Fact-checking Trump’s immigration and One Big Beautiful Bill claims

US president made a series of remarks while touring Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention centre.

Al Jazeera

Trump’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ set to receive its first group of immigrants

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The Independent UK

Welp, Alligator Alcatraz is falling apart faster than Trump’s casinos — anyone shocked?

As if the human rights issues weren't bad enough.

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Trump's 'Alligator Alcatraz' Flooded Following Summer Rainstorm Just Hours After President's Visit

President Trump and Kristi Noem toured Florida's controversial sixth ICE detention center during its opening on Tuesday before it flooded.

Reason

Trump Visits $450 Million 'Alligator Alcatraz,' Suggests Taxpayers Should Fund More of Them

Only eight days after construction began, Florida’s new immigration detention center in the Everglades is set to officially open this week.

The Independent UK

Voices: Alligator Alcatraz will get the thumbs up from Trump’s Maga supporters

COMMENT: A vast new migrant detention centre in a remote part of the Florida Everglades – where would-be escapees are guaranteed to be eaten alive by crocodiles – comes from an imagination every bit as sadistic as any in Ancient Rome, says Sean O’Grady

The Independent UK

MAGA star skewered for gleefully promoting ‘official Alligator Alcatraz merch’: ‘The banality of evil’

‘I repeat, this prison has merch. Things are going insanely well,’ Benny Johnson tweeted on Tuesday.

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The Independent UK

‘We’ll have to arrest him’: Trump threatens jail for Mamdani in NYC and calls Biden a ‘son of a b****’ in wild ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ visit

The president christened his new ‘escape-proof’ detention center in Florida Tuesday and things went off the rails at times

Latin Times

Trump Mocked for Saying He Plans to 'Spend a Lot of Time Here' in Response to 'Alligator Alcatraz' Question: 'Calling Himself a Detainee'

President Donald Trump is being ridiculed by social media users after mishearing a question from a reporter, stating that he planned on spending a lot of time in Florida after being asked how long migrants would be detained at Alligator Alcatraz.

Al Jazeera

‘Cops in the form of alligators’: Trump visits Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz

The migrant detention facility, located in the Florida wetlands, was built in eight days and will include 3,000 beds.

International Business Times

Trump Declares Biden 'Wanted' to Lock Him Up While Touring 'Alligator Alcatraz,' Unleashes Wave of Jokes: 'We All Did'

While touring the new "Alligator Alcatraz" migrant detention center in Florida, President Donald Trump joked that President Biden wanted him incarcerated in the facility, spurring a barrage of mockery from social media users.

The Guardian - US

Trump celebrates harsh conditions for detainees on visit to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

President says immigration jail in Florida Everglades is a ‘little controversial, but I couldn’t care less’

International Business Times

Trump Hails New 'Alligator Alcatraz' Migrant Detention Center

US President Donald Trump reveled in a new Florida migrant detention center dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" Tuesday, joking that any escapees would be taught to run away from the reptiles to avoid being eaten.

The Independent UK

Fox & Friends yuk it up over Trump Alligator Alcatraz ‘advice’: ‘Do not run in a straight line’

‘Teach them how to run!’ Ainsley Earhardt laughed while co-host Brian Kilmeade said to run in a ‘serpentine’ pattern.

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