Dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” the massive tent detention complex built deep in the Florida Everglades can hold 3,000 and could be the template for other facilities in other states.

Hundreds of immigrants with no criminal charges are being held at a state-run immigration detention camp in the Florida Everglades that President Trump and his allies have dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," according to records obtained by the Miami Herald and the Tampa Bay Times.

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.

The Florida Attorney General's office revealed serious criminal backgrounds of detainees at Alligator Alcatraz facility, including MS-13 gang activity.

(THE CONVERSATION) The state of Florida has opened a migrant detention center in the Everglades. Its official name is Alligator Alcatraz, a reference to the former maximum security federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay.

Democratic lawmakers toured the “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center in Florida and denounced what they deemed overcrowding and unsanitary conditions. Republican leaders, however, have described the facility as "safe and secure,

Protesters lined the streets on Saturday as lawmakers from both sides of the aisle arrived at the immigration detention facility.

A local Democratic state lawmaker suing the state to gain full access to Alligator Alcatraz is unlikely to get a final ruling anytime soon, but she did get to see the facility this weekend along with Republicans.