Florida, up detention and Alligator Alcatraz
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The U.S. district judge assigned to the lawsuit to halt the state-run immigrant detention center in the Everglades recused himself on Wednesday, nearly three weeks after environmental groups asked the court to intervene.
Democratic lawmakers condemned the facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” by Trump loyalists as crowded, unsanitary and bug-infested.
President Donald Trump visited a new immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades on Tuesday as state officials showcased what critics are condemning as an inhumane makeshift prison camp and
Alligator Alcatraz: Trump speaks at immigration detention center in Florida Everglades President Donald Trump took a tour of the facility in the Florida Everglades and then attended a roundtable.