Gov. Ron DeSantis and President Donald Trump have dismissed worries for the ecosystem. During a June 27 Boca Raton press conference, DeSantis told NBC 6 South Florida politics reporter Hatzel Vela ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis is pushing back on a new lawsuit filed this week by Florida Democrats related to the recent opening and ...

Five state Democratic lawmakers, who were denied entry to Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” earlier this month, sued Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) on Thursday, arguing he didn’t ...

The detention immigration facility is located in an idle airstrip in the Everglades that the DeSantis administration recently ...

Five state lawmakers who were denied access to a new immigration detention center built by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration ...

A new state-run immigration detention center nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz” is set to open Tuesday in the Everglades.

"You literally have the president coming down tomorrow to tout what Florida has done," Gov. Ron DeSantis said of the ...

Ron DeSantis' ambitious plans for a massive detention facility dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" in the Florida Everglades have ...

Republican states are considering building versions of Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz," a detention facility for illegal ...

Environmental groups sued to block the detention center, calling it "not only cruel," but also a threat to the "ecosystem ...

Groups have filed lawsuits against construction in the highly sensitive environment of the Big Cypress National Preserve.