In a new court filing, the Department of Homeland Security says that so far, Florida has not even applied for any federal ...

Florida lawmakers argued state law grants elected officials access to inspect state-operated facilities without approval, but ...

The first detainees arrived July 3 at the facility, which will cost $450 million to operate and consists of tents and ...

Florida lawmakers have voiced their concern over the possibility, and five were recently denied entry into the facility.

Aerial video showed detainees at the migrant detention facility in the Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” for the first ...

A state-run detention facility for migrants has opened in the Florida Everglades. Alligator Alcatraz — that is the official name — was assembled in eight days and opened on July 1. President Donald ...

Democratic lawmakers, including Florida State House Representative Anna Eskamani, were blocked from entering the facility to ...

By Alisha Ebrahimji, Isabel Rosales, Devon M. Sayers, Dalia Faheid(CNN) — Florida lawmakers worried about “humanitarian concerns” were denied entry into the new detention center dubbed “Alligator ...

In a surprising and possibly unlawful act, five state legislators were denied entry Thursday into a taxpayer-funded migrant detention center deep in the Everglades, raising questions about what will ...

The group of Democratic state senators and representatives said they wanted to exercise their statutory right as lawmakers to ...

Some GOP donors whose companies helped build and will assist in running the facility are being given seven-figure sums.