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Trump empties Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz amid soaring costs
The U.S. has emptied the immigration detention camp in the Florida Everglades known as Alligator Alcatraz after the state spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the high-profile facility to support President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement that the jail, a sprawling complex of tents and trailers that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis ordered built last year atop a decommissioned airfield, was emptied in coordination with state and federal authorities as the Atlantic hurricane season gets underway.
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