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 ...

A fresh round of infighting erupted among Democratic officials, donors, and political operatives on Wednesday, a day after ...

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

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

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has announced a plan to build an immigrant detention center in the heart of the Everglades.

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

MIAMI (AP) — A Canadian man being held by immigration officials in South Florida has died in federal custody, officials said.