Florida will run the facility at a cost of about $450 million a year, with the opportunity for federal reimbursement.

Hundreds of people, including Indigenous groups, environmentalists and immigration advocates, gathered outside Gov. Ron DeSantis’ planned “Alligator Alcatraz” detention facility in the ...

Florida has begun building a detention centre - dubbed the 'Alligator Alcatraz' - to temporarily hold migrants on an air strip in the Everglades. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi ...

Newsweek Senior Editor-at-Large Josh Hammer praises the ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention centre as a “brilliant move”.

Florida's attorney general says the migrant detention facility is on track to open in early July, at a little-used airfield in the Everglades. Environmental activists hope they can stop the project.

More detentions at San Francisco immigration courthouse Two more people on Tuesday were led out of San Francisco immigration court in handcuffs and into a waiting van.

Dreamer who spent 15 days in ICE detention says she was ‘scared and felt alone' Caroline Dias Goncalves, a 19-year-old college student from Utah, described her time in immigration detention ...

US President Donald Trump has hailed the "fantastic" new detention centre for migrants in Florida, claiming the camp will help "keep the border secure".

President Donald Trump will visit a new migrant detention facility in the Florida Everglades on Tuesday, showcasing his border crackdown in the face of humanitarian and environmental concerns.

The Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office says there's been an increase in ICE arrests at county and state buildings, but even with sanctuary policies, they say they can't do anything about it.

A mother and her two young children are fighting for their release from a Texas immigration detention centre, in what is believed to be the first lawsuit involving children to challenge the Trump ...