Trump administration officials want “Alligator Alcatraz” to be a blueprint, but Democrats are pushing back on expansion.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration left many local officials in the dark about the immigration detention center that rose from an isolated airstrip in the Everglades, emails obtained by The ...

Trump administration officials want “Alligator Alcatraz” to be a blueprint, but Democrats are pushing back on expansion ...

The seven articles below about Alligator Alcatraz focus on conditions, motivations, and controversies surrounding the Everglades detention facility. Catch up with the coverage below.

The tents, beds and pens have been erected in the Florida Everglades, and hundreds of migrants have been shipped to the detention facility the state is calling Alligator Alcatraz. Now what?

A picture can be worth a thousand words. But an image posted Monday across the social media accounts of the Department of ...

Since Alligator Alcatraz, a detention facility nestled deep in the Florida Everglades, was proposed in June, it has sparked a ...

Can a single facility be an “clean, air-conditioned, and well-kept” center and, at the same time, an “internment camp” with “vile conditions”? That is the paradox at the heart of Florida’s “Alligator ...

Deep in the marshy wetlands of the Florida Everglades – less than 50 miles west of President Donald Trump’s resort in Miami – ...

The concept, a product of the go-go 1960's, was killed by an unlikely environmental pioneer, President Richard Nixon ...

Florida's remote Everglades are now home to a new, hastily constructed immigration detention facility, controversially dubbed ...

The first group of immigrant detainees has arrived at a new detention center deep in the Florida Everglades that officials have dubbed Alligator Alcatraz, according to a spokesperson for state ...