Florida officials are pursuing plans to build a second detention center to house immigrants, as part of the state’s ...

"This is an existing airstrip that is already built and paved," the office of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis told Newsweek.

An immigration detention facility located at an isolated Everglades airfield is just days away from being operational, ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says new immigration detention centers in Florida will be largely funded by FEMA's ...

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A proposed immigrant detention center in the Everglades dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" is drawing criticism for its potential ...

The Trump administration and Florida leaders are moving forward with a plan to build a detention facility on a remote site in the Everglades to hold undocumented migrants awaiting deportation, ...

The site lies about 40 miles west of the Miami International Airport and about halfway to Naples, out past a series of ...

Florida’s decision to build a massive detention facility for undocumented immigrants in the middle of the Everglades is fast ...

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

Florida will run the facility at a cost of about $450 million a year, with the opportunity for federal reimbursement.

The facility, located at an isolated Everglades airfield surrounded by mosquito-, python- and alligator-filled swamplands, is ...