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A top Florida official says the controversial state-run immigration detention facility in the Everglades will likely be empty in a matter of days ...

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The number of people being held at "Alligator Alcatraz," an immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades, may soon be down to zero, despite the state's insistence that the facility was desperately needed as part of President Trump's crackdown on unauthorized immigrants.

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-- The New York Times (@nytimes.com) Aug 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM

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"... Florida Division of Emergency Management Executive Director Kevin Guthrie said "we are probably going to be down to 0 individuals within a few days."

Webster's changes 'boondoggle' to Trumpdoggle.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-27 02:15 PM | Reply

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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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#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-28 03:39 PM | Reply

More Trumpdoggles?

"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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#3 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-28 03:47 PM | Reply

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

Not to worry, Gracie will put that on her credit card.

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-28 03:59 PM | Reply

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

Can you say, "embezzlement"?

#5 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-28 03:59 PM | Reply

"...Not with a bang, but, a whimper."

#6 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-08-28 09:24 PM | Reply

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