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Florida Shuts Down Alligator Alcatraz After a Year of Lawsuits and Brutality

Florida Shuts Down Alligator Alcatraz After a Year of Lawsuits and Brutality

After using $1 billion to brutalize immigrants, Alligator Alcatraz has been emptied. Its victims still need justice.

22.06.2026 7

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Thomas Kennedy

Miami Police Have Become a Show-Me-Your-Papers Patrol Despite Public Opposition

Police-ICE collaboration agreements are deeply unpopular in Miami. So why aren’t elected Democrats fighting them?

04.05.2026 10

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DHS Plans More State-Run Extrajudicial Black Sites Like “Alligator Alcatraz”

Homeland Security's Kristi Noem mentioned plans to build similar immigration jails in Arizona, Nebraska, and Louisiana.

01.10.2025 10

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DeSantis Races to Open Immigrant Detention Camp in Swamp Amid Hurricane Season

Even before “Alligator Alcatraz,” Ron DeSantis had defined his political legacy by gleeful cruelty against immigrants.

03.07.2025 20

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The Kafkaesque Case of Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez Is a Warning to Us All

In a clear case of racial profiling, immigration police in Florida unlawfully arrested and held a US-born citizen.

25.04.2025 20

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