Florida's DeSantis unveils new immigration detention center dubbed 'Deportation Depot' to expand deportations.

Gov. Ron DeSantis has said the location in the rugged and remote Everglades was meant as a deterrent against escape, much ...

Florida is preparing to build yet another detention facility for immigrants. It has already awarded a contract for a ...

Religious leaders, advocates and family members of detainees gathered for a vigil outside Alligator Alcatraz. Officials deny their claims.

A few weeks ago, my car battery gave up the ghost while running errands on a blistering Florida day, and a nice man from the roadside-assistance service rushed in with a replacement. As the two of us ...

Alligator Alcatraz came to life in June after Florida's attorney general announced on social media that a detention center would be built in Collier.

There’s a dissonance between how Americans, especially some lawmakers, talk about Cubans fleeing the island and how they are ...

The Mass will mark the Rev. Frank O'Loughlin's 60th year as a priest, all of them spent serving farmworkers and immigrants across southern Florida.

Two separate lawsuits could halt operations at “Alligator Alcatraz,” the controversial makeshift immigrant detention center ...

DeSantis announced plans to convert a shuttered North Florida prison into an immigration detention center, replacing a ...

Nowhere in the job description for law enforcement does it say you have to wrangle an alligator. But then again,<a ...

Standing in front of the Baker Correctional Institution, closed since 2021, Gov. DeSantis unveiled the new name: the ...