The immigration detention site is being met by opposition over its impacts on local Native American tribes, the Everglades ...

Hundreds protest Florida's ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ migrant detention center in the Everglades, citing ecological damage, tribal ...

The DeSantis administration has made quick work of transforming the property into what state officials see as an ideal ...

I was kind of offended on the alligator’s behalf with the way they talk about them,” she said. “I don’t think the alligator wants its name attached to the word Alcatraz.” ...

The compound's proponents say its location in the Florida wetlands, teeming with reptiles like alligators and Burmese pythons, make it an ideal spot for immigration detention.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, an ally of President Donald Trump, boasted this week in a social media video that ...

Environmental advocates and protesters at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport on Tamiami Trail E, Ochopee, Fla., on Saturday, June 28, 2025, object to the "Alligator Alcatraz" being built ...

Hundreds of people gathered in the heart of the Everglades on Saturday — signs raised and chants echoing — to protest ...

Two environmental charities on Friday filed a lawsuit at a Miami federal court attempting to block the opening of a new migrant processing facility at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport ...

A legal and environmental firestorm is growing around Florida’s controversial migrant detention center — dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” — under construction at the remote Dade‑Collier airstrip in the ...

A coalition of environmental groups filed a lawsuit Friday to prevent the federal government from opening a migrant detention center at an airstrip Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve. The ...

Hundreds protest Florida's new immigration detention facility in the Everglades, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," as Gov. DeSantis says it will open Tuesday.