Protesters oppose the construction of 'Alligator Alcatraz,' an immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades.

Florida is set to open a controversial immigration detention hub, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," near the Everglades, raising ...

A coalition of groups, ranging from environmental activists to Native Americans advocating for their ancestral homelands, converged outside an airstrip in the Florida Everglades Saturday to protest ...

A lawsuit challenges the "Alligator Alcatraz" detention center near the Everglades, while Gov. DeSantis defends the $450 ...

Hundreds of people lined a Florida Everglades highway Saturday to protest the construction of an immigrant detention center ...

The speed by which the state is building the detention camp has unnerved environmentalists as well as local and state elected ...

This scheme is not only cruel, it threatens the Everglades ecosystem that state and federal taxpayers have spent billions to protect,” said Eve Samples, Executive Director of Friends of the Everglades ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law Friday, June 27, 2025, a boater safety law named for Luciana Fernandez, a 17-year-old Miami-Dade County girl who was killed in a Sept. 4, 2022, vessel crash ...

At the direction of Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida is quickly constructing a $450 million-a-year immigration detention center, ...

Hundreds of people, including indigenous groups, environmentalists and immigration advocates gathered outside Gov Ron DeSantis’ planned ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration detention ...

DeSantis’ broader use of emergency power comes as U.S. presidents have also leaned on their emergency authority. Elena ...