A new state-run immigration detention center nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz” is set to open Tuesday in the Everglades.

The detention immigration facility is located in an idle airstrip in the Everglades that the DeSantis administration recently ...

Kona Ice, restaurants explain, apologize after being seen at Alligator Alcatraz, the new immigration processing center in the ...

Florida Democrats inspected the "Alligator Alcatraz" immigrant detention center, criticizing the $450 million site as ...

Florida has converted an isolated airport in the Everglades into a massive immigration detention center called "Alligator ...

The facility, which has been called a "concentration camp," was slated to become operational on July 1 after a visit by ...

During Donald Trump's first visit, the controversial ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ migrant detention center flooded just one day after ...

President Donald Trump campaigned on several promises to tackle illegal immigration but faces a shortage of detention beds. The One Big Beautiful Bill, Trump's tax and spending plan, passed the Senate ...

People are there,” Press Secretary Jae Williams said, though he didn’t immediately provide further details on the number of ...

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Blazing lights, sewage: 55 years later, Alligator Alcatraz steamrolls Marjory Stoneman Douglas-led effort to keep the ...

Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit last week, accompanied by the request for a ...