Deportation Flights Begin From Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

The US has begun deporting detainees from the makeshift immigration detention center in Florida dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” Governor Ron DeSantis said.

About 100 people were deported directly from the facility, while several hundred detainees have been transferred to other immigrant detention centers, DeSantis said. The facility, built at an abandoned airfield in the Everglades, has been touted by President Donald Trump as crucial to his plans for mass deportations of undocumented immigrants.

“The cadence is increasing,” the Republican governor said at a press briefing outside the detention center on Friday. “You’re going to continue to see the numbers of deportations ...