Protestors are calling for the shutdown of the new immigration detention facility in Florida dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," claiming inadequate conditions and a lack of access to healthcare for detainees.

Protesters shouted to trucks entering the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport during the “Stop Alligator Alcatraz” protest in opposition to the construction of a massive detention ...

Alligator Alcatraz has triggered pride in the MAGA world, and fury in an unlikely bipartisan mix of South Floridians. Decades ago, bipartisan outrage erupted in a fight over a jetport on the same

Battle over Alligator Alcatraz detention site intensifies as political, legal fights escalate in South Florida 02:49. A federal judge in Miami could decide as early as next week whether to ...

The giddy, extremely online cruelty around the Florida detention facility reveals contempt for popular opinion.

Environmental advocates and protesters at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport on Tamiami Trail E, Ochopee, on Saturday, June 28, 2025, object to the “Alligator Alcatraz” being ...

Some of the objections to the facility are that it's located in an alligator and snake-infested swamp. I've also read that some have complained about the Florida heat. Though any facility in Florida is subject to it being hot. It is Florida. Oh, and it's also air-conditioned.

In pursuit of immigration enforcement, the DeSantis administration quickly seized Everglades land to construct the center. A fleet of trucks transported crucial equipment into the sensitive area. Meanwhile, environmentalists sued to prevent the facility from operating, citing potential ecological damage.

Butcher is one of south Florida's most well-known artists, and he's grown famous for his black-and-white landscape pictures of the Everglades.