Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has announced a plan to build an immigrant detention center in the heart of the Everglades.

Alligator Alcatraz’ was just the beginning; now there’s a second site in the works to hold undocumented immigrants. Governor ...

What has been dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” the state-built migrant processing center in the Everglades, seems to be almost complete.

We will stay on the ground for as long as we’re needed and at the direction of Governor DeSantis,” a spokeswoman said.

Called "Alligator Alcatraz" by state officials, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday during a stop in Boca Raton that the facility ...

Florida and federal officials announced the state will build a new immigration detention facility dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" in the Everglades, and because the facility will be partly funded by the ...

A massive immigrant detention camp nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz" will open in early July at an abandoned airfield in the ...

The move marks a return home for Estenoz, a fifth-generation Florida native who worked for the foundation prior to her ...

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Critics have condemned the facility and what they call the state's apparent reliance on alligators as a security measure as a ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday doubled down on his assertion that a temporary detention center being constructed at an ...

Ron DeSantis said Wednesday that the temporary detention center being constructed at an isolated Everglades airfield will ...