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"Alligator Alcatraz" got off to a speedy start, but how much will it cost to keep the immigration detention center going?
Kristi Noem, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, said in an announcement that spinoff facilities are currently underway.
The tents, beds and pens have been erected in the Florida Everglades, and hundreds of migrants have been shipped to the ...
Dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” the massive tent detention complex built deep in the Florida Everglades can hold 3,000 and could ...
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 ...
Catch up on the unfolding saga of the immigration detention center in the Everglades.
Trump administration officials want “Alligator Alcatraz” to be a blueprint, but Democrats are pushing back on expansion ...
The location of Trump's immigrant detention center has a painful history of incarceration, abuse, and private interests.
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 state of Florida has opened a migrant detention center in the Everglades. Its official name is Alligator Alcatraz, a ...
The concept, a product of the go-go 1960's, was killed by an unlikely environmental pioneer, President Richard Nixon ...
The solid monthly job tallies that the White House has touted as a “Trump effect” are expected to fade as the president’s ...