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

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

An immigration detention facility located at an isolated Everglades airfield is just days away from being operational, ...

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

Florida officials have unveiled plans to build a detention centre for undocumented migrants in the Everglades that has been ...

The DHS-approved plans will allow the new Florida facility to hold immigrants arrested in the Sunshine State, as well as ...

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

DeSantis said he's considering standing up a facility at a Florida National Guard training center known as Camp Blanding, ...

Florida to detain migrants in new Everglades facility dubbed ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ By . Karina Tsui, Isabel Rosales. Updated Jun 24, 2025, 8:44 PM ET. PUBLISHED Jun 24, 2025, 5:19 AM ET.

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

The facility is scheduled to open in July, consisting mainly of tents, and is estimated to cost $450 million per year to ...