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.

P.S. Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, a Holocaust survivor who played cello in the Auschwitz women’s orchestra, turns a hundred today.

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.

Tensions. Unease. Tears. Migrants, lawyers and court watchers have seen all that and more since ICE began making arrests in ...