The immigration detention site is being met by opposition over its impacts on local Native American tribes, the Everglades ...

I was kind of offended on the alligator’s behalf with the way they talk about them,” she said. “I don’t think the alligator ...

The compound's proponents say its location in the Florida wetlands, teeming with reptiles like alligators and Burmese pythons, make it an ideal spot for immigration detention.

Hundreds protest Florida's ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ migrant detention center in the Everglades, citing ecological damage, tribal ...

Environmental advocates and protesters at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport on Tamiami Trail E, Ochopee, Fla., on Saturday, June 28, 2025, object to the "Alligator Alcatraz" being built ...

Environmental activists rallied Saturday near the Dade-Collier airport to protest construction of a state-run immigration ...

Hundreds of people gathered in the heart of the Everglades on Saturday — signs raised and chants echoing — to protest ...

Two environmental groups have filed a lawsuit to prevent the construction of a detention center in the Florida Everglades.

A coalition of environmental groups filed a lawsuit Friday to prevent the federal government from opening a migrant detention center at an airstrip Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve. The ...

A legal and environmental firestorm is growing around Florida’s controversial migrant detention center — dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” — under construction at the remote Dade‑Collier airstrip in the ...

Florida's attorney general says the migrant detention facility is on track to open in early July, at a little-used airfield ...

On Saturday morning, protesters gathered outside where crews are working around the clock to open the facility as soon as ...