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

Tribal nations with ancestral ties to the land are denouncing the development of 'Alligator Alcatraz' in Big Cypress National ...

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 ...

Florida’s recently appointed attorney general, James Uthmeier, announced that he had a pretty snazzy idea: Build the state’s ...

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

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

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

The state says the site will help relieve overcrowded county jails, but environmental advocates and tribal leaders are pushing back.

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