In pursuit of immigration enforcement, the DeSantis administration quickly seized Everglades land to construct the center. A fleet of trucks transported crucial equipment into the sensitive area.

With over $170 billion allocated through Trump’s megabill, we are witnessing the creation of a vast, permanent enforcement ...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis plans to establish "Alligator Alcatraz," an immigrant detention facility at a remote Everglades airstrip. The state is using emergency powers to seize the land from ...

Collier could have been home to the Everglades Jetport, the world's largest airport of the future, until environmentalists ...

Jim Beever spent much of his career reviewing large developments in the Collier County area, which is where the detention ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has previously said there would be no impacts to vegetation and there would be no paving or permanent construction at the Everglades site.

Florida Democratic lawmakers are traveling to inspect the site as they bristle over the idea of children detained.

President Donald Trump tours the immigration detention center nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz” on July 1, 2025, in Ochopee, Florida.

As the large commercial trucks roar one after another onto the airfield property in the Everglades where a massive detention ...

The Florida Republican Party has fundraised off the facility, selling branded T-shirts and beverage container sleeves.

President Donald Trump visited a new immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades on Tuesday as state officials showcased what critics are condemning as an inhumane makeshift prison camp and ...

Supporters and protesters gathered Tuesday outside Florida’s newest migrant detention center — a controversial facility ...