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 ...

Critics have condemned the detention facility and what they call the state’s apparent reliance on alligators as a security ...

"We will stay on the ground for as long as we're needed and at the direction of Governor DeSantis," a spokeswoman said.

Tribal nations with ancestral ties to the land are denouncing the development of 'Alligator Alcatraz' in Big Cypress National ...

A massive immigrant detention camp nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz" will open in early July at an abandoned airfield in the ...

Governor Ron DeSantis​ pushed back against those concerns Wednesday, insisting the facility will have no long-term impact.

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

"This is an existing airstrip that is already built and paved," the office of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis told Newsweek.

At a news conference in Boca Raton on Thursday, he also pushed back against environmentalists and immigration advocates ...

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

Called "Alligator Alcatraz" by state officials, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday during a stop in Boca Raton that the facility ...

The governor said announcements about plans to build immigration detention centers are expected "very, very quickly." ...