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"Florida taxpayers may lose $218M on empty Alligator Alcatraz' as judge orders shutdown

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) " Florida taxpayers could be on the hook for $218 million the state spent to convert a remote training airport in the Everglades into an immigration detention center dubbed " Alligator Alcatraz."

The center may soon be completely empty as a judge upheld her decision late Wednesday ordering operations to wind down indefinitely.

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis ' administration is preparing to open a second immigration detention facility dubbed "Deportation Depot" at a state prison in north Florida."

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"Mystery surrounds $1.2 billion Army contract to build huge detention tent camp in Texas desert

WASHINGTON (AP) " When President Donald Trump's administration last month awarded a contract worth up to $1.2 billion to build and operate what it says will become the nation's largest immigration detention complex, it didn't turn to a large government contractor or even a firm that specializes in private prisons.

Instead, it handed the project on a military base to Acquisition Logistics LLC, a small business that has no listed experience running a correction facility and had never won a federal contract worth more than $16 million. The company also lacks a functioning website and lists as its address a modest home in suburban Virginia owned by a 77-year-old retired Navy flight officer."

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