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Churchill Ndonwie

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 29, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Churchill Ndonwie

    ICE wasted taxpayer money on Alligator Alcatraz with no contract, report finds (opens the original)

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    MIAMI — A new report by a congressional accountability watchdog found the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement squandered taxpayer dollars on “unsuccessful detention initiatives,” including the Everglades detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz. The report revealed that the DeSantis administration operated the facility without proper authorization from federal immigration officials, resulting in per-detainee costs nearly three times higher than standard ICE facilities. The U.S. Governme

  2. Article · Sep 4, 2026 · Churchill Ndonwie

    Alligator Alcatraz guards face battery charges in case over detainee treatment (opens the original)

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    MIAMI — Two Alligator Alcatraz guards have pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor battery charges in the first known criminal case alleging detainee mistreatment at the now-shuttered Everglades detention center. Collier County prosecutors say guards Andre Seenaraine and Stephen Trejos went after detainee Rigoberto Rodriguez Arce on Jan. 25, weeks after he was detained by immigration officials. Charging documents don’t detail what happened, but Rodriguez’s lawyer said he “sustained serious injuries.”

  3. Article · Aug 31, 2026 · Churchill Ndonwie

    Donalds dismisses Jolly’s call for new Hope Florida investigation as ‘politics’ (opens the original)

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    Republican gubernatorial nominee Byron Donalds is brushing aside calls from his Democratic opponent to open a new investigation into how the DeSantis administration used the state’s Hope Florida charity to divert millions of dollars from a Medicaid settlement into a campaign to defeat recreational marijuana. Campaigning at a Las Vegas Cuban Cuisine in Doral Saturday, Donalds said the administration’s financial maneuvering during the 2024 campaign season has already been looked into by the Florid

  4. Article · Jul 17, 2026 · Churchill Ndonwie

    Federal judge demands evidence showing Alligator Alcatraz is closed for good (opens the original)

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    Gov. Ron DeSantis may have announced that Alligator Alcatraz is closed and the tents are gone, but that’s not enough for civil rights lawyers or a Florida federal judge. Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation want the state and feds to confirm in federal court that the controversial immigration detention center hastily erected in the Everglades has permanently closed and will not reopen. On Thursday, a federal judge sided with the civil liberties group. U.S. District Judge She

  5. Article · Jul 14, 2026 · Churchill Ndonwie

    Alligator Alcatraz is no more. Tents, cars, signs disappear from airport site (opens the original)

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    The bright blue sign reading ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ outside the silver chain-link gate at Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport has been removed. The airstrip, formerly used to hold immigrants in industrial tents, is now cleared with only a few structures and cars remaining. And after Gov. Ron DeSantis invested over a billion dollars to transform the Everglades runway into an immigration detention center, it now looks as if that never occurred. Aerial photos shared with the Miami Herald sho

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