Florida’s bid to be on the front lines of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans has taken a swampy turn. The state, ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis is using emergency powers to seize an airfield in the Florida Everglades and make a proposed “Alligator ...

Florida’s decision to build a massive detention facility for undocumented immigrants in the middle of the Everglades is fast becoming one of the most controversial symbols of the Trump ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his administration plan to open the 1,000-bed facility the first week of July in the state's ...

"Time is of the essence," Kevin Guthrie, director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, wrote in a letter to the ...

Ron DeSantis (R) is backing the plan and on Monday his administration moved to take over the proposed property after failing ...

Florida plans to open “Alligator Alcatraz,” a migrant detention center in the Everglades. It will reportedly house up to ...

Alligator Alcatraz is the brainchild of Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, one of Gov. Ron DeSantis' most valuable ...

An immigration detention facility located at an isolated Everglades airfield surrounded by mosquito-, python- and ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis is directing the state to build an immigrant detention center on so-called "Alligator Alcatraz" — a ...

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

Florida’s attorney general says the facility is on track to open in early July, at a little-used airfield in the Everglades. Environmental activists hope they can repeat history and stop the project.