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The public needs clear, accurate language. The stakes are too high for us to play along with the Trump administration’s ...
“Alligator Alcatraz” is the insulting name Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has given the inhumane detention center he has erected ...
The location of Trump's immigrant detention center has a painful history of incarceration, abuse, and private interests.
But data and news reports about the first month’s arrivals show the majority of Alligator Alcatraz’s detainees do not have U.S. criminal convictions.  President Donald Trump, federal officials and ...
Environmental groups and locals including the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida say the center is a big problem.
Alcatraz was first used as a jail during the American Civil War. It later became a federal penitentiary in 1934, closing less than 30 years later.
Some people detained at the facility have violent criminal histories. But data and news reports about the first month’s ...
Many detainees at Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz detention center have no criminal record. The Miami Herald obtained a list of over 700 individuals who are either held or are en route to the camp in the ...
Newsweek spoke with the attorney of a detainee and the friend of another. Both described harrowing conditions at the remote facility.
Trump administration officials want “Alligator Alcatraz” to be a blueprint, but Democrats are pushing back on expansion.
Alligator Alcatraz is the symbol of their crusade, and it could hardly be more American. It channels this country’s long history of paranoia, xenophobia and systematic exclusion through the ...
Yeah, it's a concentration camp. It's also a meme, a troll and an especially ugly distillation of American history ...