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How Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed away $1 billion for state-run immigrant detention centers
MIAMI — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis won’t say how much he’s spent to carry out his vision for state-run immigration detention centers, but his office has signed at least 55 contracts worth $1 billion over the past year for the...
MIAMI — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis won’t say how much he’s spent to carry out his vision for state-run immigration detention centers, but his office has signed at least 55 contracts worth $1 billion over the past year for the effort, a Miami Herald analysis found.
The vast majority of those contracts were for building and maintaining the soon-to-be-shuttered Everglades tent city the state dubbed Alligator Alcatraz. The rest were for a jail-turned-detention facility in Baker County, which DeSantis’ office calls Deportation Depot.
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