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— the state-run in , — remains open and operating as of early 2026, with reported capacity up to 3,000 and thousands processed since it opened in mid‑2025 . The facility is the focus of multiple legal...
Multiple reputable outlets reported that hundreds—not —of people who were held at the nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz” could not be located in ICE’s public detainee locator after the facility was emptie...
The reporting does not support the claim that located "" of the people who disappeared after passing through ; instead, independent investigations found roughly 800 detainees no longer appeared in ICE...
Alligator Alcatraz opened in July 2025 as the South Florida Detention Facility and quickly became the center of lawsuits and a federal judge’s order to wind down operations within 60 days — a ruling t...
US immigration detention and employer-run work camps are described in recent reporting and legal documents as expansive and often abusive: ICE operated in roughly 389 facilities as of February 2025 wh...
Many warnings in past decades that “Florida would be underwater” condensed worst‑case projections and dramatic metaphors about sea‑level rise; actual measured sea level along Florida has risen about 7...
Reports from September 2025 show that a large share of men transferred through Florida’s so‑called “Alligator Alcatraz” detention operation could not be located on ICE’s public locator and other syste...
Alligator Alcatraz — officially the South Florida Detention Facility — is located at the Dade‑Collier Training and Transition Airport inside Big Cypress National Preserve near Ochopee in the Florida E...
The term "Alligator Alley" refers to a new South Florida immigration detention facility officially opened on July 3, 2025, locally nicknamed because of its remote Everglades location and harsh reporte...
The available reporting does not provide a single authoritative count of how many people are ""; instead, contemporaneous sources offer differing figures and emphases — one investigative piece reports...
Federal oversight of rapid‑build sites like ’s “” has been a mix of existing detention‑inspection programs and separate audits focused on , but the public record in the reporting provided does not sho...
A federal judge ordered Alligator Alcatraz — the state-operated immigration detention site in the Everglades — to stop admitting new detainees and to wind down operations within 60 days in late August...
Two distinct threads emerge from reporting on “Alligator Alcatraz”: mainstream news outlets document mostly non‑citizen immigrant detainees with only , while advocacy pieces and lawyers’ statements de...
News outlets derived the figure of roughly 800 “missing” detainees by cross‑checking two roster snapshots of men held at against ICE’s public detainee locator and internal ICE records: reporters match...
No reporting in the provided set indicates that Alligator Alcatraz — the Florida Everglades immigration detention site established in mid‑2025 — filed for bankruptcy or underwent corporate restructuri...
Multiple major news outlets and advocacy groups reported that hundreds — not an independently confirmed flat figure of exactly 1,200 — of people who passed through Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” deten...
Reports from multiple outlets say hundreds of people who were detained at Alligator Alcatraz disappeared from ICE’s public detainee locator after leaving the site; The Miami Herald found roughly two‑t...
A federal judge ordered Alligator Alcatraz — the South Florida Detention Facility in the Everglades — to stop taking new detainees and to wind down operations within roughly 60 days after finding the ...
Families and reporters say a large share of men who were held at the temporary Everglades site nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz” cannot be found in ICE’s public detainee locator — the Miami Herald and De...
Alligator Alcatraz is the informal name for a large immigration detention complex the State of Florida established in mid‑2025 at the Dade‑Collier Training and Transition Airport inside Big Cypress Na...