Alligator Alcatraz, Florida and immigration detention
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Trump, Alligator Alcatraz
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But data and news reports about the first month’s arrivals show the majority of Alligator Alcatraz’s detainees do not have U.S. criminal convictions. President Donald Trump, federal officials and Florida Republicans touted the remote Everglades immigration detention centers — dubbed Alligator Alcatraz — as a place to detain people deemed the "worst of the worst.
Attorneys say armed guards, insufficient phone accessibility and “abysmal conditions” violate the due process rights of those held in the Everglades immigrant detention center.