Florida’s new, rapidly constructed migrant mass detention center isn’t just cheekily alliterative and, as the state Republicans have shown, useful for merchandising. But “Alligator Alcatraz,” with its invocation of its swampy Everglades surroundings and the brutal penitentiary of the past, evokes its intended function.

Flight tracking data appears to show that two military aircraft left the facility this week for Texas and Louisiana.

The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded a contract to build and run a 5,000-bed tent camp at the Army base in El Paso.

Trump administration officials want “Alligator Alcatraz” to be a blueprint, but Democrats are pushing back on expansion

The more you read about Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz and Texas’ disastrous floods, the more you realize what they share in common, for while they’re two wildly different stories, both show how politics and spin have displaced competence and integrity as the driving core of MAGA-era governing.

Republican states are considering building versions of Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz," a detention facility for illegal immigrants that was celebrated by President Donald Trump.