New Facility Faces Unsubstantiated Claims from Democrats While Republicans Laud Orderly Operations Florida's new migrant detention center, derisively nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz," is currently weathering a storm of criticism primarily driven by partisan rhetoric.

Emails show that while southwest Florida officials were still chasing rumors about the sprawling “Alligator Alcatraz” facility, state agents were already on-site, rushing vendors through the gates to

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration left many local officials in the dark about the immigration detention center that rose from an isolated airstrip in the Everglades.

But data and news reports about the first month’s arrivals show the majority of Alligator Alcatraz’s detainees do not have U.S. criminal convictions.  President Donald Trump, federal officials and Florida Republicans touted the remote Everglades immigration detention centers — dubbed Alligator Alcatraz — as a place to detain people deemed the "worst of the worst.

A federal judge may pause operations at Alligator Alcatraz as protests grow and nonprofits sue over conditions and impact.

ICE detention standards are difficult to enforce because they aren’t written into law. Rather than follow a uniform standard, detention centers operate under a patchwork of different standards.

How many inmates at Florida's Alligator Alcatraz? How many people in a cell? Where do they eat? Who works there? Is there air conditioning? Showers?

Concerns about conditions for detainees were heightened when one was rushed out of the detention center Monday in an ambulance.

Florida continues to carry out mass deportations, prompting legal experts to question the legality of the state’s controversial ‘blueprint’.

Marines were sent under the same section of the U.S. Code as the National Guard troops when they were deployed to L.A.