The first flights from "Alligator Alcatraz," Florida's controversial immigration detention center nestled in the Everglades, departed this week, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday, July 25. Planes took off while immigration advocates,

The first deportation flights out of Alligator Alcatraz have begun, with about 100 detainees being removed from the country in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security, Florida officials said.

This weekend, lawmakers got their first look inside “Alligator Alcatraz,” the makeshift immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., called the conditions “disturbing and vile,

James Uthmeier is Florida's Attorney General and has deepened the controversy surrounding Donald Trump's immigration policies. He publicly invited ex-partners

Two influential environmental groups suing state officials over construction of Alligator Alcatraz are sounding the alarm over what they say is a “catastrophe” unfolding at the remote site of the state-manage controversial immigration detention facility.

The Florida GOP isn’t the only one profiting from the detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” by selling merchandise. A subset of Etsy buyers and sellers began a boycott of the online marketplace this month over its decision to allow “Alligator Alcatraz”-branded merchandise on its site.

Catholic priests have been barred from providing religious services inside Florida's new migrant detention facility — dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" — nearly three weeks after it opened, said Archbishop Thomas Wenski.