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Who ended up at Alligator Alcatraz? It’s not just ‘worst of the worst’ criminals, as officials said
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 Florida Republicans touted the remote Everglades immigration detention centers — dubbed Alligator Alcatraz — as a place to detain people deemed the "worst of the worst.
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Alligator Alcatraz: American history from the dark side
German culture and the German language were virtually erased from American society almost overnight — sauerkraut was rebranded as “Liberty cabbage,” seriously — and as historian Matthew Stibbe writes, the “enemy alien hysteria” of the war years fed right into the Red Scare immediately afterward:
In the depths of the Florida Everglades, a place teeming with mosquitoes, swamps, and predatory reptiles, the U.S. government has endorsed what many human rights activists now call the Alligator ...
The ACLU, ACLU of Florida and Americans for Immigrant Justice are working with detainees and other groups representing them, ...
The remote facility in the Florida Everglades is expected to cost the state about $450 million annually to operate.
Editor's note: The little-used airstrip in the Everglades that the state is using to build a detention center for immigrants, ...
Alligator Alcatraz’ is visual policy aimed to stage terror as a message while making Donald Trump’s authoritarian and fascist ...
Since Alligator Alcatraz, a detention facility nestled deep in the Florida Everglades, was proposed in June, it has sparked a ...
“ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ” IS JUST THE LATEST in a series of cruel spectacles that mark Trump’s deportation and detention efforts.
On Sunday, two men stood in front of Alligator Alcatraz to show support for the detention center. One held a sign that read, ...
Without permanent structures, electricity or running water, logistical headaches have emerged at “Alligator Alcatraz.” ...
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