The location of Trump's immigrant detention center has a painful history of incarceration, abuse, and private interests.

A few years ago I came across a profoundly unnerving historical photo: A lineup of terrified, naked Black babies cowered over ...

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 ...

“Alligator Alcatraz” is the insulting name Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has given the inhumane detention center he has erected ...

Apparently designed to be an immigration deterrence and a display of cruelty, Alligator Alcatraz is much more than ...

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 ...

This is an unprecedented situation where hundreds of detainees are held incommunicado, with no ability to access the courts, ...

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 ...

The state of Florida has opened a migrant detention center in the Everglades. Its official name is Alligator Alcatraz, a ...

Those historical crimes paved the way for a more recent example, the infamous concentration camps of the 1940s in which 120,000 Japanese Americans, most of them native-born U.S. citizens, were ...

So it is with the Florida concentration camp for migrant detainees known as “ Alligator Alcatraz,” which was at first a gleeful MAGAsphere nickname and is now what this jury-rigged assemblage ...