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'Alligator Alcatraz' hearing ends with no ruling or injunction

A Florida federal judge heard arguments about the conditions at "Alligator Alcatraz" detention center in the Everglades but ...

Federal court hearing to fight legal ‘black hole’ for detainees held at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ ends without immediate ruling

The court hearing on behalf of detainees held at the controversial makeshift immigration detention center dubbed “Alligator ...

Environmental concerns could halt construction at Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration jail

Gov. Ron DeSantis has said the location in the rugged and remote Everglades was meant as a deterrent against escape, much ...

‘Shut it down.’ Every Sunday, they come to pray outside Alligator Alcatraz

As thunder boomed on an ominous Sunday evening just outside of Alligator Alcatraz, over 200 people — most of them reverends, rabbis, pastors and people of assorted faiths — chanted in unison, “Shut it ...
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'Liberty to the oppressed': Faith, activism at the first Catholic mass outside Alligator Alcatraz

On a sweltering afternoon in the Everglades, faith and activism intersected — as the nonprofit Guatemalan Maya Center ...

Florida to open ‘Deportation Depot’ at shuttered prison weeks after launching ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ facility

Florida's DeSantis unveils new immigration detention center dubbed 'Deportation Depot' to expand deportations.

'Father Frank' to say Mass outside Alligator Alcatraz, protesting immigration crackdown

The Mass will mark the Rev. Frank O'Loughlin's 60th year as a priest, all of them spent serving farmworkers and immigrants ...