Arrest made in 2022 migrant smuggling boat capsizing that killed 39 peopleOn Jan. 25, 2022, a Jacksonville-based tugboat crew returning from a job in Puerto Rico found an overturned 25-foot boat with a man sitting on the hull floating about 45 miles off Fort Pierce Inlet. The crew rescued 22-year-old Juan Esteban Montoya, who later told federal agents he and his 18-year-old sister were among 40 people on the boat when its…Spokane Spokesman-Review2d agoWhole story →SecurityJusticemigrant smuggling arrest
Detainees confined to small metal cages at Alligator Alcatraz, report findsMIAMI — The state-run immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz” violated a host of federal and state detention standards, according to a new government report. At the center, which cost an estimated $1 billion and closed on June 25, detainees lacked adequate living space, access to showers, legal information and…Spokane Spokesman-Review23d agoWhole story →JusticePlanetalligator alcatraz detention report
