Despite extensive attempts to obtain approval to say Mass in the detention center, Wenski told RNS the archdiocese had not been able to provide pastoral care for the detained migrants.

Florida officials should learn from the facility that inspired the state’s newest immigrant detention center, and change course before it’s too late.

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

Deep in the hazardous and ecologically fragile Everglades, hundreds of migrants are confined in cages in a makeshift tent detention facility Florida’s Republican governor calls “safe and secure” and Democratic lawmakers call “inhumane.

Land in the Everglades once designated to be a jetport, is now being turned into a detention center for migrants and being called Alligator Alcatraz.

The Trump administration created a mosquito-plagued gulag where prisoners’ forbearance is tested. Many things are wrong with the Florida migrant detention center officially named “Alligator Alcatraz,” but least of these are the gators and pythons that populate the environmentally sensitive Everglades, where the prison is located.

The state’s emergency rules allow Gov. Ron DeSantis to suspend state laws and a competitive bidding process to award millions of dollars from an account he alone controls.

Pam Bondi's visit comes as she faces intense pressure from Trump's MAGA base to release the Epstein files she claimed to have in February