A tribal leader told Newsweek that he and members in the Big Cypress National Preserve of Florida, which is adjacent to the state's Alligator Alcatraz migrant detention center, are seeking legal remedies against officials because environmental efforts are taking "a huge step backward."

Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-Fla.) was among a group of lawmakers given a tour of the controversial immigration detention center built by the state of Florida.

Republicans who control the state and federal governments say what they’ve named Alligator Alcatraz is just what’s necessary and is operating as it should. There’s a political subtext to the back and forth over the center. It was conceived by Florida ...

A 15-year-old boy with no criminal record was held at “Alligator Alcatraz” for three days after a traffic stop, according to reporting by the Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times. Miami Herald State Government Reporter Ana Ceballos joins Chris Jansing to explain the sequence of events that ended with the boy at the Everglades facility.

A group of Florida Democrats in Congress introduced a bill to cut off funding for Alligator Alcatraz and any immigration detention facility located in or near the Everglades. The bill aims to ensure access, public disclosure on how it operates, and Congressional oversight.

But data and news reports about the first month’s arrivals show the majority of Alligator Alcatraz’s detainees do not have U.S. criminal convictions.  President Donald Trump, federal officials and Florida Republicans touted the remote Everglades immigration detention centers — dubbed Alligator Alcatraz — as a place to detain people deemed the "worst of the worst.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration left many local officials in the dark about the immigration detention center that rose from an isolated airstrip in the Everglades.

Days after criticism from residents, an Ohio jail tried to create its own version of Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz."

The location of Trump's immigrant detention center has a painful history of incarceration, abuse, and private interests.

At least five Republican governors are reportedly considering building large-scale immigration detention centers modeled after Florida’s