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Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' detention center is set to receive its first group of immigrants

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Florida 's 'Alligator Alcatraz ' detention center is set to receive its first group of immigrants.

The facility, at an airport used for training, will have a capacity of about 3,000 detainees.

Environmental groups and Native American tribes have protested against the center, contending it is a threat to the fragile Everglades system.