Fernando Artese had plans to voluntarily leave the country before he was arrested last month for driving with a suspended license, his daughter said.

The Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida has filed a lawsuit against the state’s new immigration detention facility in the Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz.” In a statement, the tribe says the detention center was built on its traditional lands.

How many inmates at Florida's Alligator Alcatraz? How many people in a cell? Where do they eat? Who works there? Is there air conditioning? Showers?

The camp was first announced by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, who is DeSantis’ former chief of staff and was manager of the governor’s unsuccessful 2024 presidential campaign, late last month.

The first group of immigrants are set to arrive at a new detention center deep in the Florida Everglades that officials have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”

The Florida congressman visited the new immigrant detention center in his state over the weekend and said “we can’t sanitize” its “horrible” conditions.

A TikTok user said her neighbor's cousin got a contract to supply "a ton" of incinerators at the Florida migrant detention center.

A video shared with the Associated Press overnight on Wednesday shows Florida workers installing a new sign labeled "Alligator Alcatraz" along the only highway leading to the new immigrant detention center in the Everglades.

Concerns about conditions for detainees were heightened when one was rushed out of the detention center Monday in an ambulance.