These articles share insights into Alligator Alcatraz, the migrant detention center in Florida. The takeaways focus on construction, politics and the controversial location. See the stories below.

New Facility Faces Unsubstantiated Claims from Democrats While Republicans Laud Orderly Operations Florida's new migrant detention center, derisively nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz," is currently ...

Florida state officials left many at the county level in the dark about the shadowy immigration detention center in the ...

The lawsuit says attorneys have been repeatedly turned away from the detention camp and had virtual meetings mysteriously canceled.

ICE detention standards are difficult to enforce because they aren’t written into law. Rather than follow a uniform standard, ...

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