The new report cited 'significant risks' to migrants' health and safety at the Everglades immigration detention center.

The GAO report said the DeSantis administration ran the site without proper authorization from federal immigration officials.

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Gov. Ron DeSantis' rebuke of an audit of Alligator Alcatraz show him backtracking on past comments and making claims industry ...

Another federal government report found that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement dramatically expanded immigration, ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had bragged about the squalid lock-up before it became a debacle. Alligator Alcatraz is closing with a bitter send-off from the ...

The Supreme Court will decide if ICE can detain millions of immigrants without giving them a chance to seek bond, even if they have lived in the U.S. for years.

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Aerial view of structures including gigantic tents built at Alligator Alcatraz in Ochopee, Florida, on July 4, 2025. Pedro Portal pportal@miamiherald.com Alligator Alcatraz ended the same way it began ...

Deep in the Florida Everglades, a massive detention facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz” has risen almost overnight.

Namath joined the voices of environmentalists and human rights activists who want to shut down the facility that the state opened for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to hold detainees. “I am ...