The governor's office announced that the state would use emergency powers to seize land in the Everglades to create an immigrant detention center.

Florida officials have forged ahead over the past week in constructing the compound dubbed as “Alligator Alcatraz” within the Everglades' humid swamplands.

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 ...

Lawsuit and protest intensify over “Alligator Alcatraz” in Everglades Protesters, tribes and gators aren’t thrilled about Florida’s newest swamp detention site ...

Protesters line highway in Florida Everglades to oppose ‘Alligator Alcatraz' Hundreds of protesters lined part of U.S. Highway 41 that slices through the marshy Everglades — also known as ...

Friends of the Everglades killed the Big Cypress Swamp Jetport project in 1969. Can they stop 'Alligator Alcatraz'?

The Stuart-based Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity has filed a federal lawsuit to protect the Florida Everglades from the "Everglades Alcatraz" The center is being ...

"If people get out, there's not much waiting for them other than alligators and pythons," state Attorney General James Uthmeier said.

Florida's attorney general has proposed a temporary detention facility he's dubbing "Alligator Alcatraz," which he wants to build in the Everglades to house what he calls "criminal aliens." As of ...

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.