News Summary

• Alligator Alcatraz and other new immigration jails are drawing widespread criticism for terrible conditions and restricted access to legal resources.
• Immigration detention is not meant to be punitive; as opposed to prisons, it is merely meant to hold people pending developments in their immigration case.
• The Trump administration has moved to aggressively expand the pool of people who can be jailed during those proceedings, saying that millions of immigrants are eligible to be held without bond.
• To do that, the administration is building capacity wherever it can, from military bases and state prisons to tent cities in the middle of the Everglades.