It took a catchy name to turn an idea for a migrant detention center into a cult phenomenon. Alligator Alcatraz, the recently and hastily opened site in the Florida Everglades, has gained a starring ...

Trucks, trailers and tents rapidly formed Alligator Alcatraz in an isolated Everglades airfield. (Alon Skuy / Getty Images) The first detainees have started arriving at Alligator Alcatraz, Florida’s ...

A recent poll shows that 78% of respondents believe "Alligator Alcatraz," a Florida detention center, is a concentration camp. Critics cite inedible food, tainted water, mosquitos, and lack of due ...

Alligator Alcatraz immigrant detention camp in Everglades may be emptied Work progresses on a new migrant detention facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” at Dade-Collier Training and Transition ...

Environmental advocates and protesters at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport on Tamiami Trail E, Ochopee, Fla., on Saturday, June 28, 2025, object to the "Alligator Alcatraz" being built ...

Author Andrea Pitzer joins Karen Conti to discuss whether Alligator Alcatraz is a concentration camp and why countries continue to have these holding facilities. Andrea details the conditions at ...

When President Donald Trump toured Florida’s so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” immigrant detention camp on July 1, he cast its location in the Big Cypress National Preserve as a remote and inhospitable ...

The first detainees have started arriving at Alligator Alcatraz, Florida’s immigrant detention center in the Everglades. The facilitywent up on a former airstrip in eight days and will have an initial ...

The first detainees have started arriving at Alligator Alcatraz, Florida’s immigrant detention center in the Everglades. The facility went up on a former airstrip in eight days and will have an ...