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The Shame of “Alligator Alcatraz”
P.S. Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, a Holocaust survivor who played cello in the Auschwitz women’s orchestra, turns a hundred today. “The word ‘indomitable’ might have been invented for her,” Alex Ross wrote, after spending time with her last year. “She is perhaps the most awe-inspiring person I have ever met.” 🎻
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.
The Miccosukee Tribe of Florida cites "significant concerns about environmental degradation" and threats to "traditional and ...
An Italian passport holder was already preparing to leave the U.S. All three ended up at Alligator Alcatraz, a vast compound ...
Dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” the massive tent detention complex built deep in the Florida Everglades can hold 3,000 and could ...
The following three articles on Alligator Alcatraz focus on immigration, environmental impact and politics. The camp sits in the Florida Everglades, using the old Dade-Collier Training and Transition ...
The location of Trump's immigrant detention center has a painful history of incarceration, abuse, and private interests.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention standards are difficult to enforce because they aren’t written into law. Rather than follow a uniform standard, detention centers operate under a ...
Alligator Alcatraz’ is visual policy aimed to stage terror as a message while making Donald Trump’s authoritarian and fascist ...
"If somebody were to get out, there's nowhere to run, nowhere to hide — only the alligators and pythons are waiting," ...
Several immigrant detainees described high tension and anxiety at the remote, hastily constructed facility over a lack of ...
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