Florida officials are turning an airfield in the Everglades into a migrant detention center, nicknaming it "Alligator Alcatraz" due to its proximity to the apex predators.

By Stadratte via iStock for WMNF News. By Dara Kam ©2025 The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — As they continue to fight a legal effort by environmental groups to block an immigrant-detention ...

Hundreds of immigrants with no criminal charges in the United States are being held at Alligator Alcatraz, a detention facility state and federal officials have characterized as a place where “vicious ...

Florida began on Tuesday construction of a temporary migrant detention facility dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" due to its remote location in the Everglades, a vast subtropical wetland teeming with ...

Florida has begun building a migrant detention facility in the Everglades, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” where officials say the surrounding nature will serve as a low-cost security system.

CHANG: OK. Well, let's talk about Trump's trip to Florida, if you can. He was there to tour, I understand, a new migrant detention facility. Can you tell us more about this place?

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is looking to turn a military base that held German prisoners of war during World War II into a migrant detention center. DeSantis on Wednesday proposed turning Camp ...

A Florida Native American leader spoke out against a new migrant detention facility in the Florida Everglades, nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz," raising environmental and safety concerns for local ...

Florida Rep. Angie Nixon claimed Trump is building "modern day concentration camps" following the opening of a 5,000-person migrant detention facility nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz." ...