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Florida’s attorney general welcomed judges overseeing Alligator Alcatraz cases to visit the detention center. One of them wants to take him up on it.
A federal judge in Miami will hear arguments on Monday in a case over the controversial immigration detention center in the middle of the Florida Everglades known as "Alligator Alcatraz."
Lawyers say immigrants battling medical emergencies and disease at Alligator Alcatraz: ‘I don’t want to die in here’ - DHS rejects claims of a disease outbreak at the Florida Everglades detention cent
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.”
The temporary restraining order will put a pause on any construction projects, including lighting, paving, excavation, and fencing.
"People get caught up in the names, and they think it becomes a joke. I don't think what we're doing is a joke."
A federal court in Miami has ordered Florida to temporarily pause construction of the “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention center. And ICE is now hiring “patriotic Americans” as young as 18.
A lawsuit challenging construction and operations of an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as 'Alligator Alley' has wrapped up with several key questions unanswered.
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Environmental concerns could halt construction at Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration jail
A federal judge will hear closing arguments in a hearing over whether to stop construction indefinitely at “Alligator Alcatraz.”
Alligator Alcatraz came to life in June after Florida's attorney general announced on social media that a detention center would be built in Collier.
The first Catholic Mass was celebrated at the controversial immigrant detention center in the remote Everglades on Saturday and Church officials are now permitted by state corrections officials to provide Catholic ministry and pastoral care moving forward,
CBS News Miami’s Jim Berry introduces us to this week’s “Person of Interest”: Archbishop Thomas Wenski, the leader of Miami’s Catholic community. Berry and Wenski talk about his take on Alligator Alcatraz and how it sits with his faith.