A federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump’s prized “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center must close, striking a blow to the administration’s mass deportation efforts. The center was thrown together in just eight days on an abandoned airstrip in the middle of the Florida Everglades and has been rocked by allegations of abuse,

The findings raise questions about the DeSantis administration’s vetting of the companies that received Alligator Alcatraz contracts.

The injunction orders that construction be paused and bans officials from bringing additional people to the Everglades immigrant detention facility.

A detainee with an intellectual disability claims he was deported from the controversial Alligator Alcatraz detention facility after signing what he thought was a form for a blanket.

The answer could play a key role in a legal battle over the facility’s fate. And it has bigger implications, too.

Orlando Congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost delivered sharp criticism of the site, describing it as "inhumane" and calling for it to be shut down.

A group of congressional Democrats is pushing officials at the DHS for more information about the use of the immigration detention facility dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz."

Although a federal judge in Miami ordered their case be moved to another Florida district, the ACLU and other plaintiffs suing the controversial migrant detention facility over access to attorneys insist they'll win the litigation - and that they have already been handed "an important victory.