Alligator Alcatraz lawsuit, the loss of a Liberty City activist and Miami's Great Hurricane

17/10/2025 54 min
Alligator Alcatraz lawsuit, the loss of a Liberty City activist and Miami's Great Hurricane

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Episode Synopsis

On this week's episode of The South Florida Roundup, we looked at the sudden revival of the plaintiffs’ case in their challenge to the state - or is it the federal? - migrant detention center in the Everglades known as Alligator Alcatraz [01:09]. We also spoke with a close friend of Dwight Wells, the beloved Liberty City community activist and mentor who was shot dead on Oct. 10 [19:07]. And we talked with Karen Dustman, the author of the book Miami’s Great Hurricane about how that storm a century ago made us better prepared in this century [35:03].

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