Florida, Alligator Alcatraz and Friends of the Everglades
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Two Italian nationals living in the United States are among the inmates currently being held at the ICE detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida, according to Italy’s foreign ministry.
The Trump administration says each bed at the detention camp is expected to cost $245 a day - roughly the price of one night this week at the Intercontinental Miami hotel.
Archbishop Wenski of Miami and some 25 Knights of Columbus saddled up their motorcycles to pray a rosary at the entrance of Alligator Alcatraz, the migrant detention center recently opened in the Florida Everglades.
The local officials who are facing criticism over a controversial detention center for undocumented migrants on Miami-Dade County land met on Monday to celebrate a step forward on a $141 million PortMiami project near Miami International Airport.
A 15-year-old boy briefly ended up detained at the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” an attorney said.
Alligator Alcatraz, a migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades, is surrounded by swamps infested with dangerous alligators and pythons.
Deep in the hazardous and ecologically fragile Everglades, hundreds of migrants are confined in cages in a makeshift tent detention facility Florida’s Republican governor calls “safe and secure” and Democratic lawmakers call “inhumane.
Archbishop Thomas Wenski visited ‘Alligator Alcatraz,' Florida's new migrant detention center located in an isolated airstrip near the Big Cypress National Preserve, to pray for for detainees. But the entrance of the facility is as far as he was able to go without approval from officials.