News

‘Gravely concerned’: Miami-Dade County mayor presses for access to Alligator Alcatraz
Amid allegations of deplorable conditions in Alligator Alcatraz, mayor of Miami-Dade County asks the feds and state ...
Giant bugs, heat and a hospitalization: Inside Alligator Alcatraz's first days
Concerns about conditions for detainees were heightened when one was rushed out of the detention center Monday in an ...
5 things to know about GardaWorld, one of the contractors behind Alligator Alcatraz
GardaWorld, an international security company whose U.S. headquarters are in Boca Raton, is one of several contractors hired ...
Opinion
Maxwell: DeSantis spending orgy at Alligator Alcatraz benefits donors
Campaign donors cash in at Alligator Alacatraz as Gov Ron DeSantis uses ’emergency’ declaration to skirt competitive bidding rules for $450 million project ...
Republican donors and Florida’s hurricane know-how helped build ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ so quickly
Florida has converted an isolated airport in the Everglades into a massive immigration detention center called "Alligator ...
Trump administration efforts to distance themselves from Alligator Alcatraz get pushback
As they urge a U.S. district judge to halt an immigrant-detention center in the Everglades, environmental groups are pushing back against Trump administration arguments seeking to distance the federal ...
Critics have an even more controversial nickname for ICE’s Everglades detention facility: ‘Alligator Auschwitz’
The disparaging, historically loaded nickname for the facility popped up on Bluesky, X and other social media platforms, and ...
Immigration inmates already moved from Orange County jail to Alligator Alcatraz, state lawmakers say
Several inmates with ICE detainers at the Orange County Jail have already been transported to the controversial new Alligator Alcatraz detention facility in the Florida Everglades, two Democratic ...