It seems that the DeSantis administration just pulled more than a dozen contracts tied to the Everglades Immigration Detention facility from a public database of state contracts. These contracts total more than $200 million in taxpayer spending, and they are public records.

Two weeks after it opened, a temporary migrant detention center in the Everglades is facing expensive logistical challenges: portable toilets routinely back up, sewage needs to be collected and trucked out,

Two people keenly familiar with the Everglades are on a mission to blunt to image stoked by the name Alligator Alcatraz

An immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed by officials as “Alligator Alcatraz” is expected to be hit by lightning and heavy winds on Sunday, the National Weather Service said.

Fernando Artese had plans to voluntarily leave the country before he was arrested last month for driving with a suspended license, his daughter said.

Florida lawmakers got their first tour of the new migrant detention facility in the Everglades called Alligator Alcatraz.Democratic lawmakers had been asking for a tour for weeks after detainees claimed there were "inhumane" conditions inside the facility.

Kristi Noem clashes with NBC's Kristen Welker over alleged inhumane conditions at Florida's Alligator Alcatraz while criticizing Democrats for ignoring similar issues.

Alligator Alcatraz has triggered pride in the MAGA world, and fury in an unlikely bipartisan mix of South Floridians. Decades ago, bipartisan outrage erupted in a fight over a jetport on the same