Alligator Alcatraz is the migrant detention center near the Florida Everglades. New aerial video shows the "small city in the ...

Alligator Alcatraz is the migrant detention center near the Florida Everglades. New aerial video shows the "small city in the ...

Alligator Alcatraz is a new high-security immigration detention center in the Florida's Everglades. Andy Byron, the ...

Two influential environmental groups suing state officials over construction of Alligator Alcatraz are sounding the alarm ...

Florida’s immigration detention facility located at an isolated Everglades airfield surrounded by mosquito-, python- and alligator-filled swamplands went from a video on X to reality in a matter of ...

Alligator Alcatraz, the migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades, is surrounded by swamps infested with massive ...

Cited concerns included light pollution, saying the bright lights from the facility are diminishing the internationally recognized dark skies of Big Cypress.

Alligator Alcatraz was built into the Everglades just eight days and state officials said would cost $450 million to operate for one year.

In pursuit of immigration enforcement, the DeSantis administration quickly seized Everglades land to construct the center. A fleet of trucks transported crucial equipment into the sensitive area.

The effort by Trump, DeSantis, and Noem to turn part of the Everglades into a prison for migrants desecrates the famed Florida ecosystem.

Environmental groups and Native American leaders continue their legal push to shut down a controversial migrant detention facility, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” built on former Everglades land.

Conservationists say light pollution from Alligator Alcatraz threatens Big Cypress National Preserve, a vital dark sky habitat for Everglades wildlife like bats and panthers.