Experts are concerned about the dangerous conditions at Alligator Alcatraz, the immigrant detention center that opened Tuesday in the Florida Everglades. Hurricanes, flooding, and mosquitoes pose a more likely threat to people incarcerated there than the alligators and snakes that President Donald Trump has “joked” about.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis claims new migrant detention center has “zero” environmental impact. That’s not possible, experts say.

The camp appears designed to inflict suffering on detainees and to allow Florida politicians to exploit migrant pain for political gain.

How did a facility constructed in only eight days come to become the center of a national controversy over human dignity? The Alligator Alcatraz detention camp, deep in the Florida Everglades, has ignited outrage and demands for answers after politicians toured what they called “vile,

Alligator Alcatraz, a migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades, is surrounded by swamps infested with dangerous alligators and pythons.

Videos and satellite imagery show how quickly Donald Trump's detention centre in Florida has been constructed - as experts suggest the design of the site is flawed and will compromise the safety of people being held there.

A federal judge on Tuesday nixed the operative part of a temporary restraining order he imposed on the Trump administration, accepting the government’s assurances that money at issue in a lawsuit isn’t at risk of being used to pay for the new “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention facility.

Blazing lights, sewage: 55 years later, Alligator Alcatraz steamrolls Marjory Stoneman Douglas-led effort to keep the Everglades wild

President Trump on Tuesday visited the official opening of an immigration detention camp in Florida’s Everglades that is surrounded by alligators, aptly dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz." It is set to become the largest migrant detention facility in the U.

The sales pitch for erecting a detention center for detainees in the heart of the Everglades is the swamp and creatures surrounding it. The wildlife has become both a presidential

Two workers finished covering the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport with the “Alligator Alcatraz,” sign at the entrance of the migrant detention center, in Ochopee, Florida on ...

One of two federally-recognized tribes in Florida wants to join a lawsuit to stop Alligator Alcatraz from operating in the Everglades.