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,

The meeting will address a proposal for corrections officers to transport ICE detainees from the Orange County Jail to immigration facilities, including “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Everglades. Elected officials and immigration rights advocates are planning to speak about Orange County’s involvement with ICE.

Gov. DeSantis said he wants to avoid establishing a new detention facility at Camp Blanding for now to avoid it being partially filled there & at Alligator Alcatraz.

In the rush to criminalize brown bodies and politicize fear, we are witnessing racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow, Annette Taddeo argues. | Opinion

The creation and celebration of "Alligator Alcatraz," the hastily built detention center in the heart of mosquito-infested Florida swampland, marks a new dehumanizing low in the Trump administration's indiscriminate and cruel posture toward immigrants.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said on Wednesday he wants the detention facility, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” to be at full capacity before moving forward with the plans to turn Camp Blanding into an immigration detention site.

Kona Ice, restaurants explain, apologize after being seen at Alligator Alcatraz, the new immigration processing center in the Everglades.

WASHINGTON (TNND) — Immigrants who enter the United States illegally will no longer be eligible for a bond hearing while fighting deportation, meaning they could be held for months or years, according to a memo from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).