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

The governor’s office said no vegetation will be removed, no paving nor permanent construction. Environmental groups say to ...

Florida this week started construction on a migrant detention facility the state is billing as “efficient” and “low-cost” – ...

An immigration detention facility located at an isolated Everglades airfield surrounded by mosquito-, python- and ...

The detention center represents a new, expanded front in the harsh optics deployed to dissuade migrants from entering the ...

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

Many are rejecting the idea, citing environmental concerns — including Executive Director of Friends of the Everglades, Eve ...

Florida has begun building a migrant detention facility in the Everglades, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” where officials say ...

Florida’s attorney general says a massive immigrant detention camp nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz" will open in early July at ...

In Florida, the state is moving ahead with plans to turn an airfield in the Everglades into “Alligator Alcatraz,” an ...

Immigrant advocates said the move creates a whole new form of detention outside the scope of the federal government.

The facility could be completed within months and have the capacity to hold around 1,000 people.