Alligator Alcatraz Blasted as ‘Failed Experiment’ on Closing Day

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Alligator Alcatraz is closing with a bitter send-off from the families of once-detained immigrants.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday that the notorious detention center is being shuttered nearly a year after it was established to hold immigrants caught in the Trump administration’s heavy-handed deportation blitz.

DeSantis opened the 39-square-mile facility in July last year with the backing of the White House and then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

It quickly drew widespread condemnation over decrepit living conditions, which one former detainee described as “a copy of Guantánamo” to human rights group https://www.amnestyusa.org/reports/torture-and-enforced-disappearances-in-the-sunshine-state-human-rights-violations-at-alligator-alcatraz-and-krome-in-florida/" rel="">Amnesty International.

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