Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier proposed the use of the facilities at a meeting with federal officials earlier this month. Shortly after that, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ...

Florida Senate Minority Leader Lori Berman is demanding Florida Attorney James Uthmeier respond to a range of questions she raises about the state’s “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention center ...

Several hundred demonstrators protested plans for an immigration detention center, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," that is being ...

Environmental activists filed a lawsuit on Friday to stop the construction of a novel detention center for foreign nationals ...

Cars passing by honked in support as protesters waved signs calling for the protection of the expansive preserve that is home ...

Columnist Pat Beall writes about a horror movie come to life: the story of “Alligator Alcatraz,” the slapped-together ...

At the direction of Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida is quickly constructing a $450 million-a-year immigration detention center, ...

Federal and state officials’ swift plan to build an immigration detention facility in the heart of Florida’s Everglades has ...

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

The Trump administration is funding a project in Florida that seeks to turn an airfield in the Everglades — surrounded ...

Florida's attorney general says the migrant detention facility is on track to open in early July, at a little-used airfield ...

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