Immigration Policy & Enforcement - The Trump administration built a migrant detention camp in Florida, aiming to detain individuals for a maximum of 2 weeks before deportation [1][2] - The administration prioritizes deporting violent criminals, but considers anyone in the US illegally as breaking the law [4] - Almost half of those currently in ICE custody have neither been convicted of nor charged with a crime [4] Political & Social Response - President Trump pledged to deport a record number of migrants [3] - Environmental groups are suing in response to the detention center [5] - Trump supporters are cheering the detention center [5] Resource Allocation & Capacity - The detention center is funded by FEMA funds previously used by the Biden administration to house migrants [5] - Nationwide, ICE detention spaces are at 140% capacity [6]

Thing the country's newest immigration facility as alligator Alcatraz. And despite the fact that ICE detention is not supposed to be punitive, the Florida facility seems to be an embrace of the kind of cruelty the Trump administration has directed at immigration immigrant communities since his inauguration. As Reuters put it, quote, "The facility sits some 37 miles from Miami and a vast subtropical wetland teameming with alligators, crocodiles, and pythons. fearsome imagery the White House has leveraged to ...

I'm Gabe Gutierrez inside Alligator Alcatra. The Trump administration and the state of Florida had all of this built in just 8 days. It'll soon house up to 3,000 undocumented immigrants here temporarily.The acting ICE director tells me the goal is to have detainees here for no more than 2 weeks. Want to ensure that we remove people back in a safe and humane manner and we'd much rather do it quickly. Not only for the people detained, like I said, but just for cost savings for the American government.The admi ...

President Donald Trump tours a new immigration detention center in Florida's Everglades nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz." It will have 1,000 beds, with plans to scale up in the coming weeks and months, and Governor Ron DeSantis sees it as the first of multiple state-run immigrant detention centers. Critics say the facility could have a negative impact on the area's delicate ecosystem and they say Trump is sending a cruel message to immigrants. -------- More on Bloomberg Television and Markets Like this video? ...

President Trump is traveling to southern Florida to tour a temporary immigrant detention center in the Everglades that officials have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”Watch more: https://t.co/nUQYPUfZno https://t.co/dvl0uj1Wav ...

BRING YOU ANY PERTINENT INFORMATION, BUT LET'S DIG DEEPER NOW ON IMMIGRATION AND AMERICA RIGHT NOW, MIGRANTS TRYING TO EARN LEGAL STATUS IN THE U.S. ARE REQUIRED TO ATTEND A SERIES OF COURT HEARINGS. BUT MORE AND MORE FREQUENTLY, THESE COURT APPEARANCES ARE BECOMING TARGETS FOR ICE. LAST MONTH, A MOTHER AND HER TWO CHILDREN, ORIGINALLY FROM HONDURAS, WERE DETAINED IN THE HALLWAY AFTER THEIR IMMIGRATION HEARING IN LOS ANGELES.ONE OF THOSE CHILDREN, A SIX YEAR OLD BOY WITH LEUKEMIA. HE HAS A NINE YEAR OLD SIB ...

Joining us here in the studio right now, we have minority leader of the Florida State Senate, Lori Berman. She represents parts of Palm Beach County, Florida. Welcome to you. And the town is or the area, how does it is OAPI? Is that I don't even know. It's it's the Everglades, right? It's it's an hour from anywhere near. Thank you so much for having me on. I'm awfully glad to have you because le let's talk about who came up with this idea. I believe it was the attorney general of the state of Florida and yo ...

[Applause] The latest data collected by the World CIA Fact Book says that 22.7% of Gernzi's population weren't born in either Gernzi, the UK, or Ireland. 22.7%. That's around 13,000 people.Our brains struggle to comprehend, understand, and visualize numbers larger than the amount that we can count on our fingers. So, to help you visualize what 13,000 people might look like, I asked AI to generate a picture for me. And this is what it came up with.I'd like you to keep that in mind throughout this speech. In ...

Trump's tactics to detain immigrants are laying bare the limitations of sanctuary cities like New York, where nearly 2,000 people have been arrested by ICE. https://t.co/jKC2QiSPZI ...

Meanwhile, another possible shift in Trump's immigration crackdown. This time, he is suggesting what he calls a temporary pass. It could protect farm workers and hotel workers from deportation.Here's what he told Fox News about the whole thing yesterday. When we go into a farm and we take away people that have been working there for 15 and 20 years, who who were good, who possibly came in incorrectly, and what we're going to do is we're going to do something for farmers where we can let the farmer sort of b ...