29 days ago · Global
Former ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detainee says he was placed in phone booth-sized cage for 15 hours
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What we know
For around 15 hours, immigration detention officers kept Raúl Suárez Herrero confined in a cage slightly larger than a phone booth, where he feared snakes and endured mosquitoes in the middle of Florida swampland, the former detainee alleged.
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Former ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detainee says he was placed in phone booth-sized cage for 15 hours
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