TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit Friday to block a migrant detention center dubbed ...

"Alligator Alcatraz" is the nickname for a planned temporary immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades.

The Everglades detention center, which could open in a matter of days, will be one of several new sites in Florida that will house up to 5,000 detainees, according to the Department of Homeland ...

Environmental groups on Friday filed a federal lawsuit seeking to halt construction and operation of a detention center for ...

Environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit Friday to block a migrant detention center being built on an airstrip in the ...

Environmental activists rallied Saturday near the Dade-Collier airport to protest construction of a state-run immigration detention center in the heart of the Everglades, a project critics have dubbed ...

Florida is establishing a temporary immigrant detention center nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz" in the Everglades. The facility will utilize a former airstrip and aims to house 5,000 detainees by ...

The state says the site will help relieve overcrowded county jails, but environmental advocates and tribal leaders are pushing back.

Florida officials are turning an airfield in the Everglades into a migrant detention center, nicknaming it "Alligator Alcatraz" due to its proximity to the apex predators.

The latest plan by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to crack down on undocumented immigrants would involve emergency construction of a 1,000-bed detention center deep in the Everglades on swampy land ...

Florida this week started construction on a migrant detention facility the state is billing as “efficient” and “low-cost” – because Mother Nature will provide much of the security.