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The location of Trump's immigrant detention center has a painful history of incarceration, abuse, and private interests.
Editor's note: The little-used airstrip in the Everglades that the state is using to build a detention center for immigrants, dubbed " Alligator Alcatraz ," is part of a storied history involving Palm ...
This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.
Don’t call it ‘Alligator Auschwitz,’ writes columnist Scott Maxwell. But do get informed about the human-rights allegations ...
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 ...
The remote facility in the Florida Everglades is expected to cost the state about $450 million annually to operate.
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem after touring a migrant detention center, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," at the site of the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, Ochopee, Florida ...
Two Italian nationals living in the United States are among the inmates currently being held at the ICE detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida, according to Italy’s foreign ministry ...
In the course of this country’s development, our predecessors manifested great virtue, but they were not free from significant moral lapses.
R. Bruce Anderson writes that whatever your political position may be, taking pleasure in the misery of other humans is ...
The history of the 'Alligator Alcatraz' airstrip and how Palm Beach County was involved. Eliot Kleinberg and Holly Baltz. Tue, June 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM UTC. 10 min read.
Some people detained at the facility have violent criminal histories. But data and news reports about the first month’s ...