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Garrett Shanley

Garrett Shanley

Garrett Shanley is a senior at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications. He has reported for the Miami Herald, The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Independent Florida Alligator, the University of Florida's award-winning campus newspaper.

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Motorcycles ridden by Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski and Knights on Bikes are parked in front of the entrance to Alligator Alcatraz, a controversial immigration detention facility some 55 miles from Miami in the Florida Everglades. The archbishop and his fellow bikers stopped to pray a rosary for detainees July 20, 2025. (OSV News/Thomas G. Wenski)

Miami archbishop joins Knights on Bikes to pray for clergy access to Alligator Alcatraz

Catholic priests have been barred from providing religious services inside Florida's new migrant detention facility — dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" — nearly three weeks after it opened, said Archbishop Thomas Wenski.

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