According to the State Attorney General, the facility will become operational in the first week of July and will accommodate ...

Florida has begun building a migrant detention facility in the Everglades, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” where officials say ...

An immigration detention facility located at an isolated Everglades airfield is just days away from being operational, ...

The governor's office announced that the state would use emergency powers to seize land in the Everglades to create an ...

Florida this week started construction on a migrant detention facility the state is billing as “efficient” and “low-cost” – ...

Environmentalists objected to the plan to set up “heavy-duty” tents to house undocumented immigrants in one of the country’s ...

The Trump administration and Florida leaders are moving forward with a plan to build a detention facility on a remote site in ...

In Florida, the state is moving ahead with plans to turn an airfield in the Everglades into “Alligator Alcatraz,” an ...

Immigrant advocates said the move creates a whole new form of detention outside the scope of the federal government.

The second center would be at Camp Blanding, a Florida National Guard training site southwest of Jacksonville.

The facility, located at an isolated Everglades airfield surrounded by mosquito-, python- and alligator-filled swamplands, is ...