Environmentalists objected to the plan to set up “heavy-duty” tents to house undocumented immigrants in one of the country’s ...

Florida this week started construction on a migrant detention facility the state is billing as “efficient” and “low-cost” – ...

An immigration detention facility located at an isolated Everglades airfield is just days away from being operational.

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

The facility, located at an isolated Everglades airfield surrounded by mosquito-, python- and alligator-filled swamplands, is ...

In Florida, the state is moving ahead with plans to turn an airfield in the Everglades into “Alligator Alcatraz,” an ...

Florida AG Uthmeier said they have identified an old, abandoned airport in the Everglades as a location to build a temporary ...

The facility could be completed within months and have the capacity to hold around 1,000 people.

Immigrant advocates said the move creates a whole new form of detention outside the scope of the federal government.

The detention center represents a new, expanded front in the harsh optics deployed to dissuade migrants from entering the United States.

Many are rejecting the idea, citing environmental concerns — including Executive Director of Friends of the Everglades, Eve ...

Florida’s attorney general says a massive immigrant detention camp nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz" will open in early July at an abandoned airfield in the Florida Everglades. It is expected to house 5, ...