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Alligator Alcatraz detainees beg to be freed
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Two Italian nationals living in the United States are among the inmates currently being held at the ICE detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida, according to Italy’s foreign ministry.
Nearly three dozen 911 calls made from immigrant detention center ‘Alligator Alcatraz,' records show
Nearly three dozen 911 calls have been made from an immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades and new records are shedding some light on what the calls are about. Since July 1, when the state-run facility dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" opened, there have been 34 calls, an average of two per day.
Lawmakers called for Italy’s conservative government to do more to secure the repatriation of two nationals held at the new facility in Florida’s Everglades.
After floating the idea of reopening a shuttered federal prison on Alcatraz Island, President Donald Trump tasked two of his Cabinet members to see it for themselves last week.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Tuesday that 14 Mexican nationals were being held at the U.S. "Alligator Alcatraz" detention center and that her government was seeking their repatriation.
A tour of the facility shows how the former federal penitentiary remains larger than life in American mythology.
Some of the most dangerous people in the world lived in the Alcatraz prison. I decided to go to the island and learn all about it.