Before the detention facility opened, Florida Republicans added themed shirts, hats and coolers to their online store featuring the "Alligator Alcatraz" name surrounded by claw marks. Uthmeier, who was DeSantis' former chief of staff before being appointed ...

A state-run detention facility for migrants has opened in the Florida Everglades. Alligator Alcatraz - that is the official name - was assembled in eight days and opened on July 1. President Donald Trump visited the remote site on opening day, built at an old runway near the Miami-Dade and Collier county line.

Mega-farmer Francis Alfred “Alfie” Oakes III addresses the camera at one of his farms in Collier County. Behind him are workers, all of them immigrants, whom he says are superior