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In Florida, price of immigration "emergency" includes $12,000 plane tickets to Martha's Vineyard and $400-a-night beds at Alligator Alcatraz.
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Former Miami Dolphins quarterback Teddy Bridgewater has been suspended from his head football coaching position at Miami Northwestern, his high school alma mater, for providing "impermissible benefits" to his players. These benefits included paying for Uber rides, physical therapy, pregame meals, recovery help, field paint and more.
The Trump administration’s plan to detain illegal immigrants at a site in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” is popular with Republican voters, but not so much with others.
Some of the objections to the facility are that it's located in an alligator and snake-infested swamp. I've also read that some have complained about the Florida heat. Though any facility in Florida is subject to it being hot. It is Florida. Oh, and it's also air-conditioned.
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.
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In the course of this country’s development, our predecessors manifested great virtue, but they were not free from significant moral lapses.
Fantasizing about Florida alligators eating immigrants is old racism repackaged in a new Alligator Alcatraz detention camp.
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Trump’s Alligator Alcatraz mirrors California’s history with immigration, cruelty politics and the lasting impact on voters’ moral considerations.
with no public input and within a protected national preserve. When Uthmeier appeared on cable news June 17 to announce what he dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” in the heart of the Everglades, it looked like a stunt to distract from other environmental threats.
Discover how Alligator Alcatraz came to be in the Everglades and the challenges it faces from environmentalists over potential ecological damage.