11 h. ago What to know about "Alligator Alcatraz," Florida's immigration detention site in the Everglades

An immigration detention facility located at an isolated Everglades airfield surrounded by mosquito-, python- and alligator-filled swamplands is just days away from being operational

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16 h. ago Florida building ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ for undocumented migrants in the Everglades that will cost $450m per year to run

Facility under construction on former airfield and will cost $450m per year to run

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52 h. ago Florida to open 'Alligator Alcatraz' to house immigrants surrounded by 200,000 gators

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier proposed the creation of a new detention centre called 'Alligator Alcatraz' to detain undocumented migrants near the Everglades

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3 d. ago Florida pitches mad 'Alligator Alcatraz' prison surrounded by killer beasts to Donald Trump

Donald Trump has been given a new proposal from a government official to help with the over crowding in ICE centres – a new prison surrounded by deadly pythons and alligators

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4 d. ago Watch: Woman ‘hauling mattresses’ arrested after police find 25 migrants hiding in truck

This is the moment Texas police discovered over two dozen undocumented migrants ‘crammed’ into a truck during a crash investigation.

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6 d. ago ‘Ice raids while the wealthy party next door’: the migrants living in the shadow of Mar

Five residents of Lake Worth Beach – just 10 miles from Trump’s Maga fortress – share their stories of survival as an immigration crackdown takes its toll Lake Worth Beach, a small coastal city of about 45,000, sits in the shadows of Donald Trump’s Florida residence, Mar-A-Lago. A 10 minute drive from “Maga” HQ, it is sometimes optimistically referred to as “mini San Fran”, with a largely progressive, white middle class occupying its beachfront bungalows and a local economy built on tourism, retail and construction.It is also home to many undocumented and temporary visa migrants, who work at fruit farms and restaurants, landscape gardens and support the area’s affluent households. Though data on undocumented people is notoriously hard to collect, the 2024 census estimates that nearly half of the city’s residents are Hispanic and include Guatemalans (many of whom are Indigenous Maya), Mexicans and Venezuelans. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Worker who leaked plans to build golf courses in Florida parks files whistleblower suit

A former Florida state worker who leaked information about plans by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration to build golf courses and hotels in state parks has filed a whistleblower lawsuit

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1 week ago The Guardian view on Trump and deportation protests: the king of confected emergencies | Editorial

Strongmen love inventing or exploiting crises to justify extreme measures and extended power. The US is taking another step towards authoritarianismDonald Trump will celebrate his birthday with a North Korean-style military parade costing tens of millions of dollars this weekend. He has gratefully accepted the early gift of the demonstrations, which have spread across the country, with more scheduled for Saturday. The president’s immigration crackdown spurred overwhelmingly peaceful protests in Los Angeles. Ordering in troops, over the governor’s head, then inflamed the situation and allowed the agent of chaos to portray himself as its nemesis once more.Mr Trump has diverted attention from his rift with Elon Musk, the stalling of his “big, beautiful” tax and spending bill, the court-ordered return of the wrongly deported Kilmar Ábrego García and the impending impact of tariffs. But underlying the manufactured crisis is a deeper agenda: reigniting fear of undocumented migrants, deleg...

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2 w. ago Guantanamo Bay: Brits among 9,000 undocumented migrants 'to be sent to notorious camp'

At least 9,000 undocumented migrants, including British citizens, are set to be transferred to Guantanamo Bay in the coming days, according to reports in the United States

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2 w. ago Brits among 9,000 undocumented migrants Trump orders to be housed in Guantanamo Bay

The US Government plans to transfer at least 9,000 migrants to the detention camp, some of whom are believed to be from the UK, as part of Donald Trump's renewed immigration clampdown

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2 w. ago Undocumented migrant framed for threatening Trump is eligible for release

Wisconsin man admitted to sending threatening letters under migrant’s name in effort to get him deported, police say

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2 w. ago ‘We’re not afraid of you’: LA protesters, enraged by Trump, flood the streets

Traffic stopped, signs were brandished, insults were hurled – and the size of the protest seemed to take police by surpriseUS politics live – latest updatesThousands of Angelenos enraged by Donald Trump’s decision to commandeer their state national guard swamped the downtown streets on Sunday, bringing a major freeway to a standstill. But the national guard, hemmed in by the protesters and by dozens of Los Angeles police cruisers, played almost no role in any of it.A vocal, boisterous but largely peaceful sea of protesters engulfed the north-eastern corner of downtown Los Angeles around city hall and the federal courthouse. They hurled insults at Trump and at the immigration enforcement teams who had conducted mass arrests of undocumented migrants in the area on Friday. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Arrests of undocumented migrants working illegally in UK surge 51 per cent as Home Office raids nail bars, building sites and restaurants

More than 6,400 people have been arrested over the last 12 months as police focus on 'unscrupulous' employers who exploit undocumented migrants.

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2 w. ago Wrongly deported Kilmar Ábrego García reportedly on his way back to the US to face criminal charges

Federal grand jury has indicted him for allegedly transporting undocumented migrants within the US, media report saysTesla shares rose on Friday as investors took some comfort from White House aides scheduling a call with CEO Elon Musk to broker peace after a public feud with President Donald Trump, reports Reuters. The electric carmaker’s shares were up about 5% in Frankfurt on Friday, having closed down 14.3% on Thursday in New York, losing about $150bn in market value.“It’s unlikely that Trump will end subsidies and contracts with Tesla. Those are obviously threats that are unlikely to come into fruition,” Fiona Cincotta, senior market analyst at City Index told Reuters. “I don’t expect this to blow out into anything more serious than a war of words for a couple of days.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Stephen Miller has set his sights on new targets to find undocumented migrants: Home Depot and 7

White House Deputy chief of staff ‘eviscerated’ ICE leaders and has created ‘fearful environment,’ report reveals

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3 w. ago Undocumented migrant arrested after threatening to kill ‘your precious’ President Trump and then self

Department of Homeland Security says Ramon Morales-Reyes entered the U.S. unlawfully at least nine times between 1998 and 2005

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