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Trump administration officials want “Alligator Alcatraz” to be a blueprint, but Democrats are pushing back on expansion ...
The tents, beds and pens have been erected in the Florida Everglades, and hundreds of migrants have been shipped to the detention facility the state is calling Alligator Alcatraz. Now what?
Can a single facility be an “clean, air-conditioned, and well-kept” center and, at the same time, an “internment camp” with “vile conditions”? That is the paradox at the heart of Florida’s “Alligator ...
The concept, a product of the go-go 1960's, was killed by an unlikely environmental pioneer, President Richard Nixon ...
The seven articles below about Alligator Alcatraz focus on conditions, motivations, and controversies surrounding the Everglades detention facility. Catch up with the coverage below.
Florida's remote Everglades are now home to a new, hastily constructed immigration detention facility, controversially dubbed ...
A new detention facility plan, intended to be nestled in the heart of the Everglades, named "Alligator Alcatraz," was approved by the federal government.
The Homeland Security secretary is praising Florida for coming forward with an idea that's been dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" because it would house immigration detainees in a facility being built ...
Florida began on Tuesday construction of a temporary migrant detention facility dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" due to its remote location in the Everglades, a vast subtropical wetland teeming with ...