Florida and federal officials announced the state will build a new immigration detention facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Everglades – an area of wetlands in the south of the state. Because ...

Senate Minority Leader Lori Berman will hold a press conference on Friday, airing questions the minority caucus holds about ...

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

The Florida National Guard has been deployed to the Florida Everglades to provide security for the state’s newest migrant detention<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

Environmental groups and the Miccosukee Indian Tribe are protesting a new ICE detention center being built in the Florida ...

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

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

BOCA RATON, Fla. – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is scheduled to hold a press conference Thursday morning in Boca Raton. The ...

News and The News-Press have a reporter and photographer on site today to talk to protesters and follow the progress of the prison.

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

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is getting pushback from environmentalists on his proposal to build a temporary migrant detention center in the Everglades.

Governor Ron DeSantis​ pushed back against those concerns Wednesday, insisting the facility will have no long-term impact.