Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday that the infamous immigrant detention center referred to as "Alligator Alcatraz" is shutting down. GOV. RON DESANTIS: Alligator Alcatraz fulfilled the role that it ...

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 ...

A video shared with the Associated Press overnight on Wednesday shows Florida workers installing a new sign labeled ...

A report from the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general found that some immigrants detained at the ...

One year ago, Florida opened a detention facility in the middle of the Everglades that would become one of the most controversial immigration detention camps in the country: Alligator Alcatraz.

DHS inspectors say they found the immigration-detention centre violated basic standards for hygiene, medical care, food and ...

The tent students fought so hard to keep for 2026 graduation consequently supported a company that assisted with the ...

The chain-link cages under white industrial tents have been emptied. The guards dismissed. The immigrants transferred out. But even though Alligator Alcatraz’s gates are closed, allegations of ...

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 ...

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 ...