Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is racing ahead with construction of a makeshift immigration detention facility at an airstrip in the Everglades over the opposition of Native ...

Republicans in Florida, backing President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, have begun plans for construction on a new ...

Ron DeSantis said Wednesday that the temporary detention center being constructed at an isolated Everglades airfield will ...

“Alligator Alcatraz” is catchy branding but a misnomer. Unlike the former maximum-security prison on Alcatraz Island in San ...

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is getting pushback from environmentalists who say they were "blindsided" by his proposal to build a temporary migrant detention center in the heart of 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.

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

WASHINGTON—Picking up on a statement issued by Chairwoman Nikki Fried, Florida Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday slammed the ...

Florida officials are pursuing plans to build a second detention center to house immigrants, as part of the state’s ...

Florida began construction this week on a detention center surrounded by fierce reptiles and cypress swamps, an "Alligator Alcatraz" in the Everglades wetlands, as part of US President Donald Trump's ...

On Sunday, Friends of the Everglades held a protest against the plan at the abandoned Everglades Jetport in the Big Cypress ...

An immigration detention facility located at an isolated Everglades airfield surrounded by mosquito-, python- and ...