Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), along with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), announced last week that all persons detained at the Alligator Alcatraz immigration jail were transferred to other facilities, and that the site’s giant tents and cages had been emptied. The reason given to the public was the risk posed by Florida’s hurricane season, with the agency offering this…
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A federal judge eventually ordered the state to provide unmonitored phones for legal calls, to which the DeSantis administration responded by arguing it would be too costly for Florida taxpayers, despite the nearly $1 billion already spent to set up and run the facility. The estimated cost of unmonitored phone access would be about $180,025, plus an additional maintenance cost of $6,283. Adding insult to injury, the state of Florida has spent more than three times that amount paying a private law firm to fight against the expansion of phone access.
Alligator Auschwitz*
