Florida and federal officials announced the state will build a new immigration detention facility dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" in the Everglades, and because the facility will be partly funded by the ...

A string of portable generators and dump trucks loaded with fill dirt streamed into the site Thursday, according to activist ...

"We will stay on the ground for as long as we're needed and at the direction of Governor DeSantis," a spokeswoman said.

An immigration detention facility located at an isolated Everglades airfield is just days away from being operational, ...

Florida officials are pursuing plans to build a second detention center to house immigrants, as part of the state’s ...

The second center would be at Camp Blanding, a Florida National Guard training site southwest of Jacksonville.

Florida officials have said the detention facility, which has been described as temporary, will rely on heavy-duty tents, ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says new immigration detention centers in Florida will be largely funded by FEMA's ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his administration plan to open the 1,000-bed facility the first week of July in the state’s ...

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is getting pushback from environmentalists on his proposal to build a temporary migrant detention center in the Everglades.