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... Documents obtained in March by the Naples Daily News, part of the USA TODAY Network, indicated $1 million per day was spent on Alligator Alcatraz.
Florida State Rep. Anna Eskamani, an Orlando Democrat, told the Naples Daily News and Fort Myers News-Press on May 12 that she received a text from a member of Congress that said the center was closing.
The 1,400 people held in the center will be removed in the next few weeks. It is not yet known where they will be moved.
Alligator Alcatraz was built in eight days, and then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said it would serve as a blueprint for similar sites elsewhere. Florida opened a second site at the Baker Correctional Institution, dubbed the "Deportation Depot."
USA TODAY reviewed the construction, cost, size and capacity of Alligator Alcatraz, as well as the political and environmental objections to it. Here is what we found. ...
I watched it slowly bloom out on the live cam. It looked like every pool ever. Starts to glow grey, then green in the deeper end, and the rest quickly catches up within a few days, then you may get pea soup to neon green with a gradient across the whole pool depending on the sunlight.