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The Trump administration has made a point of trumpeting Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” as a shining example of efficiency in the government’s mass-deportation efforts and a blueprint for other states to follow.

But there are a few questions yet to be answered. Such as, will other facilities also lack plumbing and be required to truck out sewage? Will they be hastily built in a matter of days? And will the food there, as some Alligator Alcatraz detainees claim, also come with a side of maggots?

These are just some of the issues the Everglades facility is dealing with even as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem praises it as a beacon of “efficiency” and

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