Alligator Alcatraz Blocked, Health Research Cuts & College Football Returns - Friday, August 22, 2025
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
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🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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The news to know for Friday, August 22, 2025!
We'll tell you why Florida is being told to undo the "Alligator Alcatraz" migrant facility, and how President Trump's crackdown has already changed the demographics of the country.
Also, details of a new trade deal between the U.S. and Europe.
And a Supreme Court decision impacting health research funding.
Plus, the Grammy winner who was arrested and hospitalized, the teams to watch this college football season, and one girl's unique backpack invention making a difference for the community.
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Friday, August 22nd. We'll tell you why Florida is being told to undo the alligator |
| 0:04.9 | Alcatraz migrant facility and how President Trump's crackdown has already changed the demographics |
| 0:09.6 | of the country. Also, details of a new trade deal between the U.S. and Europe and a U.S. Supreme |
| 0:14.9 | Court decision impacting health research funding. Plus, the Grammy winner who was arrested and hospitalized, |
| 0:21.7 | the teams to watch this college football season, and one girl's unique backpack invention making a difference |
| 0:26.1 | for the community. Those stories and even more news to know coming up. |
| 0:31.7 | Welcome, welcome to The Newsworthy, all the day's news in around 10 minutes. Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. I'm Erica |
| 0:39.3 | Mandy. Thanks so much for being here. You're ready? Let's do this. Florida now has 60 days to clear out |
| 0:48.8 | of alligator Alcatraz. A federal judge in Miami ordered the first state-run immigration detention |
| 0:54.0 | facility to be dismantled. |
| 0:55.9 | Her ruling says the state and federal governments did not consider the environmental impacts of |
| 1:00.1 | building the facility and that it could harm wetlands and communities that depend on the Everglades for their water supply. |
| 1:06.5 | The Trump administration had argued federal environmental laws did not apply because it's a state-run |
| 1:11.3 | facility. But the center houses federal detainees received federal funding and was constructed under |
| 1:16.9 | federal direction. So the judge decided that was enough to mean it must follow federal laws. |
| 1:22.4 | Florida says it will appeal. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is stepping up its crackdown on both |
| 1:26.9 | illegal and legal |
| 1:28.1 | immigration. This week, it said it would review all of the 55 million foreigners who have valid |
| 1:33.2 | U.S. visas to see if any need to be deported. Officials will be looking for things like people who |
| 1:38.6 | have overstayed, people who have committed crimes or other public safety threats. By the way, |
| 1:43.6 | a new study found for the |
| 1:44.7 | first time in decades, more immigrants are leaving the United States than arrive it. The nonpartisan |
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