News

Miami-Dade mayor seeks monitoring access to Alligator Alcatraz detention site, citing deaths and poor conditions
Mayor Daniella Levine Cava is requesting remote video monitoring, weekly site condition reports and scheduled access to the ...
Giant bugs, heat and a hospitalization: Inside Alligator Alcatraz's first days
Concerns about conditions for detainees were heightened when one was rushed out of the detention center Monday in an ...
Republican donors and Florida’s hurricane know-how helped build ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ so quickly
Florida has converted an isolated airport in the Everglades into a massive immigration detention center called "Alligator ...
5 things to know about GardaWorld, one of the contractors behind Alligator Alcatraz
GardaWorld, an international security company whose U.S. headquarters are in Boca Raton, is one of several contractors hired ...
Opinion
Maxwell: DeSantis spending orgy at Alligator Alcatraz benefits donors
Campaign donors cash in at Alligator Alacatraz as Gov Ron DeSantis uses ’emergency’ declaration to skirt competitive bidding rules for $450 million project ...
FDEM pushes back against claims about Alligator Alcatraz
Leaders of Florida’s controversial new immigration detention center, Alligator Alcatraz, are pushing back against democratic ...
We Need To Stop Calling It 'Alligator Alcatraz' — That's Exactly What Trump Wants
"No, we’re not calling it Alligator Alcatraz. It’s a Florida concentration camp," one prominent copy editor said.
Critics have an even more controversial nickname for ICE’s Everglades detention facility: ‘Alligator Auschwitz’
The disparaging, historically loaded nickname for the facility popped up on Bluesky, X and other social media platforms, and ...