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Despite its imminent closure, attorneys suing to close 'Alligator Alcatraz' say the fight's not overNearly a year to the day since it opened, the immigration detention center in the Everglades is empty. But attorneys on the case to shut it down said the work is not done yet.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis said the center was always meant to be only temporary until more permanent detention centers could be secured, and federal officials now have that capacity.
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DHS did not say how many detainees were transferred or where they were taken. Nor did it say whether the facility would close permanently or only temporarily.
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Florida officials are celebrating a big decline in state debt. Some Democratic lawmakers say the public should also consider what wasn't funded along the way.
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An Associated Press investigation reveals children who were separated under the first Trump administration have been reseparated, despite a judge's order to reunite them.
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Immigrant detainees have told courts across the nation that officials have failed to treat or stabilize their conditions, suggesting that systemic lapses in care extend well beyond record deaths in custody.
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The Trump administration has paid Florida $58 million for operating "Alligator Alcatraz," the first of promised federal reimbursements set to flow into the state.
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The Center for Biological Diversity is suing the state for the second time over the immigration detention center in the Everglades.
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U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost visited the detention center on Tuesday. He said based on what he saw, he believes the center is winding down.
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With the facility's future in flux, PolitiFact rounded up fact-checks of statements by the governor and president that miscast its detainees, environmental effects and funding.
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Topics this week included Alligator Alcatraz and school vouchers.
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Four South Florida men have been convicted in the 2021 assassination plot targeting Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. But there are lingering questions over what really happened in the months leading up to the killing.