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Alligator Alcatraz
Alligator Alcatraz is an immigration detention facility erected at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport inside Big Cypress National Preserve in Ochopee, Florida. Announced in June 2025 by Attorney General James Uthmeier and championed by Governor Ron DeSantis, it is located in the Everglades west of Miami. The compound is designed to relieve pressure on federal immigration jails by housing up to 5,000 detainees in a remote area surrounded by alligator and python-filled wetlands. The name alludes to both the local reptile population and the former maximum-security Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in San Francisco Bay, California. Background Immigration detention in the United States began in 1855 with the use of Castle Clinton on Manhattan (together with the Marine Hospital on Staten Island for quarantine) and relocated in the 1890s to Ellis Island. In 2003, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) was created under the Department of Homeland Secur ...
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Dade-Collier Training And Transition Airport
Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, formerly the Everglades Jetport, is a public airport located within the Florida Everglades, 36 miles (58 km) west of the central business district of Miami, Florida, Miami, in Collier County, Florida, Collier County, Florida, United States. It is owned by Miami-Dade County and operated by the Miami-Dade Aviation Department. The airport is on Tamiami Trail near the border between Dade and Collier counties in central South Florida. History Begun in 1968 as the Everglades Jetport (also known as Big Cypress Jetport or Big Cypress Swamp Jetport), the airport was planned to be the largest airport in the world, covering 39 square miles with six runways, and connected to both central Miami and the Gulf of Mexico by an expressway and monorail line. The airport would have been five times the size of John F. Kennedy International Airport, JFK Airport in New York. At the time, the Boeing 2707 was under development and it was anticipated ...
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San Francisco Bay
San Francisco Bay (Chochenyo language, Chochenyo: 'ommu) is a large tidal estuary in the United States, U.S. state of California, and gives its name to the San Francisco Bay Area. It is dominated by the cities of San Francisco, California, San Francisco, San Jose, California, San Jose, and Oakland, California, Oakland. The San Francisco Bay drains water from approximately 40 percent of California. Water from the Sacramento River, Sacramento and San Joaquin River, San Joaquin rivers, and from the Sierra Nevada mountains, flow into Suisun Bay, which then travels through the Carquinez Strait to meet with the Napa River at the entrance to San Pablo Bay, which connects at its south end to San Francisco Bay. It then connects to the Pacific Ocean via the Golden Gate strait. However, this entire group of interconnected bays is often called the ''San Francisco Bay''. The bay was designated a Ramsar Convention, Ramsar Wetland of International Importance on February 2, 2013, and the Port ...
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The Atlantic
''The Atlantic'' is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C. It features articles on politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, and science. It was founded in 1857 in Boston as ''The Atlantic Monthly'', a literary and cultural magazine that published leading writers' commentary on education, the abolition of slavery, and other major political issues of that time. Its founders included Francis H. Underwood and prominent writers Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Greenleaf Whittier. James Russell Lowell was its first editor. During the 19th and 20th centuries, the magazine also published the annual ''The Atlantic Monthly Almanac''. The magazine was purchased in 1999 by businessman David G. Bradley, who fashioned it into a general editorial magazine primarily aimed at serious national readers and " thought leaders"; in 201 ...
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Internment
Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without Criminal charge, charges or Indictment, intent to file charges. The term is especially used for the confinement "of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects". Thus, while it can simply mean imprisonment, it tends to refer to preventive confinement rather than confinement ''after'' having been convicted of some crime. Use of these terms is subject to debate and political sensitivities. The word ''internment'' is also occasionally used to describe a neutral country's practice of detaining belligerent Military, armed forces and equipment on its territory during times of war, under the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907#Hague Convention of 1907, Hague Convention of 1907. Interned persons may be held in prisons or in facilities known as internment camps or Concentration camp, concentration camps. The term ''concentration camp'' originates from the Spanish–Cuban Ten Years' War when Spanish forces ...
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Stephen Miller (political Advisor)
Stephen Miller (born August 23, 1985) is an American political advisor serving since 2025 as the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, White House deputy chief of staff for policy and the 12th Homeland Security Advisor, United States homeland security advisor. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he previously served as a Senior Advisor to the President of the United States, senior advisor for policy and White House Director of Speechwriting, White House director of speechwriting during President Donald Trump's first term. His politics have been described as Far-far-right and Opposition to immigration, anti-immigration. A graduate of Duke University, Miller was involved in conservative causes during his youth, serving as the president of the Duke chapter of David Horowitz's Students for Academic Freedom and writing conservative columns for Duke Chronicle, the school newspaper. He pursued a career in politics after his graduation, first working as a pre ...
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Politico
''Politico'' (stylized in all caps), known originally as ''The Politico'', is an American political digital newspaper company founded by American banker and media executive Robert Allbritton in 2007. It covers politics and policy in the United States and internationally, with publications dedicated to politics in the U.S., European Union, United Kingdom, and Canada, among others. Primarily providing distributed news, analysis and opinion online, it also produces printed newspapers, radio, and podcasts. Its coverage focuses on topics such as the federal government, lobbying and the media. Ideologically, ''Politicos coverage has been described as centrist on American politics and Atlanticist on international politics. In 2021, ''Politico'' was acquired for reportedly over US$1 billion by Axel Springer SE, a German news publisher and media company. Axel Springer is Europe's largest newspaper publisher and had previously acquired '' Business Insider''. Unlike employees of its ...
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Deportation In The Second Presidency Of Donald Trump
United States president Donald Trump has continued the process of Deportation and removal from the United States, deporting immigrants in the United States after assuming office for a second term. The administration's policy has been characterized as "hardline", "maximalist", and a mass deportation campaign, affecting millions of immigrants and asylum seekers through widespread detentions, confinements, and expulsions. On January 23, 2025, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began to carry out raids on so-called Sanctuary city, sanctuary cities, with hundreds of immigrants detained and deported. The Second presidency of Donald Trump, Trump administration reversed the policy of the previous administration and gave ICE permission to raid schools, hospitals and places of worship. The use of deportation flights by the U.S. has created pushback from some foreign governments, particularly Colombia. Fears of ICE raids have negatively impacted Agriculture in the United Stat ...
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Donald Trump 2016 Presidential Campaign
Donald Trump ran a successful campaign for the 2016 U.S. presidential election. He formally announced his campaign on June 16, 2015, at Trump Tower in New York City, initially battling for the Republican Party's nomination. On May 26, 2016, he became the Republican Party's presumptive nominee. Trump was officially nominated on July 19 at the Republican National Convention. He chose Mike Pence, the sitting governor of Indiana, as his vice presidential running mate. On November 8, Trump and Pence were elected president and vice president of the United States. Trump's populist positions in opposition to illegal immigration and various trade agreements, such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, earned him support especially among voters who were male, white, blue-collar, working class, and those without college degrees. Many voters in the Rust Belt, who gave Trump the electoral votes needed to win the presidency, switched from supporting Bernie Sanders to Trump after H ...
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Department Of Homeland Security
The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for public security, roughly comparable to the interior, home, or public security ministries in other countries. Its missions involve anti-terrorism, civil defense, immigration and customs, border control, cybersecurity, transportation security, maritime security and sea rescue, and the mitigation of weapons of mass destruction. It began operations on March 1, 2003, after being formed as a result of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, enacted in response to the September 11 attacks. With more than 240,000 employees, DHS is the third-largest Cabinet department, after the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs. Homeland security policy is coordinated at the White House by the Homeland Security Council. Other agencies with significant homeland security responsibilities include the departments of Health and Human Services, Justice, and Energy. History Cre ...
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Ellis Island
Ellis Island is an island in New York Harbor, within the U.S. states of New Jersey and New York (state), New York. Owned by the U.S. government, Ellis Island was once the busiest immigrant inspection and processing station in the United States. From 1892 to 1954, nearly 12 million immigration to the United States, immigrants arriving at the Port of New York and New Jersey were processed there; approximately 40% of Americans may be descended from these immigrants. It has been part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument since 1965 and is accessible to the public only by ferry. The north side of the island is a national museum of immigration, while the south side of the island, including the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital, is open to the public through guided tours. The name derives from Samuel Ellis, a Welshman who bought the island in 1774. In the 19th century, Ellis Island was the site of Fort Gibson and later became a Magazine (artillery)#Naval magazines, naval magazine. ...
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Staten Island
Staten Island ( ) is the southernmost of the boroughs of New York City, five boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Richmond County and situated at the southernmost point of New York (state), New York. The borough is separated from the adjacent state of New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull and from the rest of New York by New York Bay. With a population of 495,747 in the 2020 United States census, 2020 Census, Staten Island is the least populated New York City borough but the third largest in land area at ; it is also the least densely populated and most suburban borough in the city. A home to the Lenape Native Americans, the island was settled by Dutch colonists in the 17th century. It was one of the 12 original counties of New York state. Staten Island was City of Greater New York, consolidated with New York City in 1898. It was formerly known as the Borough of Richmond until 1975, when its name was changed to Borough of Staten Island. Staten Island has so ...
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Bayley Seton Hospital
Bayley Seton Hospital (BSH) was a hospital in Stapleton, Staten Island, Stapleton, Staten Island, New York City. It was a part of the Bayley Seton campus of Richmond University Medical Center but is permanently closed. The campus was established in 1831 as a List of U.S. Public Health Service Hospitals, U.S Marine Hospital, and the current main building was constructed in the 1930s. In 1981, it became a private hospital. Location Bayley Seton is located on a , 12-building site in the Clifton, Staten Island, Clifton and Stapleton, Staten Island, Stapleton areas of the North Shore, Staten Island, North Shore of the New York City Borough of Staten Island. The complex is bounded by Bay Street to the east, Vanderbilt Avenue (Staten Island), Vanderbilt Avenue to the south, Tompkins Avenue to the west, and residential development to the north. The block, with portions sold off over time, also includes Public School 721, the Richmond Center for Rehab & Specialty Care Center, the New Y ...
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