President Donald Trump visited the Everglades on Tuesday, July 2 for the opening of Florida’s so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” ICE detention center. Outside, activists and environmentalists continued their calls for the controversial immigrant detention center to stop construction while groupies of the president (including pardoned former leader of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio) meandered about, too.
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Trump visits Florida on Tuesday for ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ opening
Protests are planned to start at 10 a.m.
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Florida Gov. DeSantis outlines plan to spend $3.5 billion on environment projects
Everglades Trust CEO Anna Upton issued a statement Tuesday calling the new plans “unquestionably historic.”
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A road trip to the Florida Keys leaves dry land for an Everglades back bay fishing trip
Cathy Salustri stretches her some long-forgotten primal survival muscle.
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Florida governor Ron DeSantis fires Rick Scott Everglades appointees
This may be the only time we’ve been excited to see a Florida politician take a page out of President Trump’s book and say “You’re fired!”
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Ron DeSantis signs executive order calling for $2.5 billion for Everglades restoration, toxic algae task force
Well, this is different.
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After Earth Day: the deal
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A dream of yearning and romance
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