Aerial footage provided by WPLG showed the site, which had held undocumented immigrants in the Everglades for about a year, ...

Alligator Alcatraz,” the remote Florida immigration detention center that faced harsh criticism for its conditions, is gone ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis invested over a billion dollars to transform the Everglades runway into an immigration detention center and ...

An aerial photo shows all the white industrial tents that once transformed the Dade-Collier Training and Transitional Airport ...

What's next for environmental and advocacy groups that fought Alligator Alcatraz as the facility is now dismantled and the ...

More than 22,000 people were processed and staged for deportation since the site opened in July 2025, Gov. Ron DeSantis said.

Florida's Alligator Alcatraz immigration facility has closed, but lawsuits, environmental damage, and abuse allegations remain unresolved. The post Ron DeSantis Says Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Is ...

The Florida Everglades immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” has served its purpose, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday, closing the makeshift facility heralded by the Trump ...

The immigration detention center in the Everglades has been open for almost one year. At a press conference on June 25, Gov. Ron DeSantis said all the detainees have been transferred, and the facility ...

Less than a year after launching with its own merchandise line, "Alligator Alcatraz" is officially shutting down.

The detainees are gone. The buses are leaving. And according to an announcement from Gov. Ron DeSantis Thursday, Florida’s controversial Everglades immigration detention center known as Alligator ...

Environmental groups in South Florida said their legal fight over Alligator Alcatraz will continue, even after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the facility was being closed down. Earthjustice, ...