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🗓️ 25 September 2025
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Headlines for September 25, 2025; Where Are the Detainees? Hundreds of “Alligator Alcatraz” Prisoners Disappear from ICE Database; West African Asylum Seekers Sent Home Despite Risk of Torture, After Being Deported by U.S. to Ghana; Israel Killed 31 Journalists in Yemen in Deadliest Attack on Press in 16 Years; Italy, Spain Deploy Naval Ships After Drones Repeatedly Attack Gaza-Bound Flotilla
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. I think Florida's done a great job by building it, and whether it's Alligator, Alcatraz, or anything else you want to call it, it's an amazing facility for what it is. |
| 0:30.6 | It's not a hotel. It's not supposed to be a hotel, but they've done a great job with it. |
| 0:34.6 | Hundreds of people who were once detained at the troubled immigration jail in the Florida |
| 0:41.3 | Everglades, dubbed Alligator Alcatraz, have disappeared. |
| 0:45.3 | The Miami Herald reports two-thirds of the 1800 immigrants who were held there in July |
| 0:52.3 | have gone missing from ICE's online database. |
| 0:57.0 | Families are now unable to locate loved ones. |
| 1:01.0 | We'll speak with the Miami Herald reporter who broke the story. |
| 1:05.0 | Then a group of 11 people deported from the United States to Ghana have all been returned to their home |
| 1:13.1 | countries where they feared torture and persecution. |
| 1:16.9 | We'll speak to the ACLU's legal earned. |
| 1:20.6 | And finally, to Yemen. |
| 1:22.6 | Recent Israeli strikes on two newspaper offices killed 31 Yemeni journalists and media support workers, making it the |
| 1:30.3 | deadliest attack on journalists anywhere in the world in 16 years. |
| 1:35.3 | Our message to the Israeli aggression and its criminal act of targeting civilians |
| 1:41.3 | at the 26 September newspaper and targeting innocent people, |
| 1:45.4 | children and women, we will not remain silent no matter what they do. We will not surrender |
| 1:49.7 | no matter what they inflict upon us. We will respond in kind. All that and more coming up. |
| 2:00.4 | Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace report. I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 2:06.7 | Israeli military strikes have killed at least 30 Palestinians since dawn in south and central Gaza. |
| 2:13.7 | Meanwhile, the Palestinian civil defense says an Israeli airstrike near a market in Gaza City |
| 2:19.3 | killed nearly two dozen Palestinians, including six women and nine children Wednesday. |
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