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What comes after ‘Alligator Alcatraz’? Uthmeier hopes for a protected environmental area

‘The plan has always been to protect the Everglades and take it back to a protected area where it’s not a commercial business, an airport.’

Although Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, the mind behind the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration lockup, doesn’t know whether the facility is shutting down for good, he hopes the former airport will become a protected environmental spot. “Now that the federal government is resourced and standing up its own mission using its own authorities, [the site] […]

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