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 ...

Florida’s recently appointed attorney general, James Uthmeier, announced that he had a pretty snazzy idea: Build the state’s ...

The move marks a return home for Estenoz, a fifth-generation Florida native who worked for the foundation prior to her ...

Critics have condemned the detention facility and what they call the state’s apparent reliance on alligators as a security ...

A massive immigrant detention camp nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz" will open in early July at an abandoned airfield in the ...

Ron DeSantis said Wednesday that the temporary detention center being constructed at an isolated Everglades airfield will ...

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

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

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will be holding a news conference in Boca Raton on Thursday. The governor will be speaking from Florida Atlantic University’s Schmidt Family Complex for Academic and Athletic ...

Called "Alligator Alcatraz" by state officials, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday during a stop in Boca Raton that the facility ...

The Florida National Guard has been deployed to the Florida Everglades to provide security for the state’s newest migrant detention<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is getting pushback from environmentalists who say they were "blindsided" by his proposal to build a temporary migrant detention center in the heart of the ...