A new report from the Department of Homeland Security’s independent inspector general has revealed that the now-shuttered Florida detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz confined migrants inside ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has moved detainees out of a controversial detention center in the Florida Everglades ...

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced at a press conference Thursday that the state's "Alligator Alcatraz" detention camp is shutting down after less than a year in operation. It's a quiet ...

"You don't expect them to be used in countries that have reasonable rule of law standards," said Juan E. Méndez, a former ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis responded to reports that Alligator Alcatraz could be closed, and the South Carolina state Senate fails to pass a redistricting plan. There are new questions tonight about ...

(CNN) — Nearly 80 immigrant detainees who were held at Florida’s makeshift detention center, known as Alligator Alcatraz, were briefly held in small metal enclosures for “periods ranging from several ...

Immigrants at Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz" were sometimes held in outdoor cages barely bigger than a phone booth, according to a federal watchdog report critical of the practice. "The use of such ...

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday that “Alligator Alcatraz,” the immigration detention center in the heart of the Florida Everglades, is officially shutting down. The ...

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Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had bragged about the squalid lock-up before it became a debacle. Alligator Alcatraz is closing with a bitter send-off from the ...

The migrant detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz is closed, but much about it remains unresolved. There are lawsuits over detainees’ treatment, environmental claims over damage to protected ...