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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...