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Alligator Alcatraz Blasted as ‘Failed Experiment’ on Closing Day
CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP via Getty Images Alligator Alcatraz is closing with a bitter send-off from the families of once-detained immigrants. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday that the notorious detention center is being shuttered nearly a year after it was established to hold immigrants caught in the Trump administration’s heavy-handed deportation blitz. DeSantis opened the 39-square-mile facility in July last year with the backing of the White House and then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. It quickly drew widespread condemnation over decrepit living conditions, which one former detainee described as “a copy of Guantánamo” to human rights group Amnesty International . Read more at The Daily Beast.
Alligator Alcatraz is closing with a bitter send-off from the families of once-detained immigrants.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday that the notorious detention center is being shuttered nearly a year after it was established to hold immigrants caught in the Trump administration’s heavy-handed deportation blitz.
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