A federal judge on Aug. 7 ordered a temporary halt to further construction at an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," while a lawsuit over its ...

A new sign was installed for Alligator Alcatraz, the ICE detention center in the Florida Everglades. Opening day at the Dade-Collier Training Airport site in Ochopee, Florida, was July 1, 2025.

Alligator Alcatraz is Florida's recently opened migrant detention center in the Everglades. The center was the brainchild of Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, who announced the site in a ...

A federal judge on Aug. 7 ordered a temporary halt to further construction at an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades that's been dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz." Undaunted by the ...

The "Alligator Alcatraz" facility is in Ochopee, Florida, just north of Everglades National Park, about six miles from Big Cypress National Preserve near the border between Miami-Dade and Collier ...

Florida officials are finalizing a remote immigration detention site dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” built on an isolated Everglades airfield as part of a broader plan to expand detention capacity.

In a win for environmentalists, a federal judge on Aug. 7 stopped further construction at the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" for two weeks while ...

Alligator Alcatraz is Florida's recently opened migrant detention center in the Everglades. The center was the brainchild of Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, who announced the site in a ...

The South Florida Detention Facility, nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz," is a temporary migrant detainment site the state opened in July in the Florida Everglades to house undocumented immigrants ...

A federal judge on Aug. 7 ordered a temporary halt to further construction at an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," while a lawsuit over its ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Friday that flights have begun deporting undocumented immigrants from the so-called ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention facility in South Florida.