Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his administration plan to open the 1,000-bed facility the first week of July in the state’s ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says new immigration detention centers in Florida will be largely funded by FEMA's ...

Florida’s decision to build a massive detention facility for undocumented immigrants in the middle of the Everglades is fast ...

Kristi Noem said the push to create the detention centers will be funded "in large part" by the Federal Emergency Management ...

Environmentalists objected to the plan to set up “heavy-duty” tents to house undocumented immigrants in one of the country’s ...

The detention facility, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” due to its location, was spearheaded by Florida Attorney General James ...

The facility, located at an isolated Everglades airfield surrounded by mosquito-, python- and alligator-filled swamplands, is ...

DeSantis will use emergency powers to take control of Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport away from Miami-Dade ...

Florida is now using emergency powers to take over a remote, 30-square-mile site in the Everglades to build what some are ...

The governor's office announced that the state would use emergency powers to seize land in the Everglades to create an ...

Florida's AG announces federal approval for an immigration detention center in the Everglades, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz." ...

Uthmeier said the detention center could be up and running in 30 to 60 days once construction starts. He compared it to the ...