U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost toured the immigration detention center in the Everglades, nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz," on May 26. He says the center has already taken down one tent and started moving ...

A South Florida activist whose father was detained at the state-run immigrant detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” confronted Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar over her support of the facility, as a ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Alligator Alcatraz closed in June, but the scrutiny has outlasted the gates. A new Department of Homeland Security inspector general report found serious health and safety failures ...

"My opponent is James Uthmeier. Alligator Alcatraz was his baby," he said in a press conference Thursday in Miami.

Deep in the Florida Everglades, a massive detention facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz” has risen almost overnight.

Aerial view of structures including gigantic tents built at Alligator Alcatraz in Ochopee, Florida, on July 4, 2025. Pedro Portal pportal@miamiherald.com Alligator Alcatraz ended the same way it began ...

COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. — Miami-Dade County is back in control of the land used for the migrant detention facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.” On Thursday, Local 10 News received an inside look of what ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Mark V. Barrow, Jr. is a Professor of History at Virginia ...

For around 15 hours, immigration detention officers kept Raúl Suárez Herrero confined in a cage slightly larger than a phone booth, where he feared snakes and endured mosquitoes in the middle of ...