On July 16, days after the first media investigations about sparse criminal backgrounds among the population were published, Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., characterized the migrants at Alligator Alcatraz ...

An Italian passport holder was already preparing to leave the U.S. All three ended up at Alligator Alcatraz, a vast compound of tents and trailers built to hold up to 3,000 migrants deep in the ...

"If somebody were to get out, there's nowhere to run, nowhere to hide — only the alligators and pythons are waiting," ...

"In most respects, ICE facilities operate with less consistent oversight and legal accountability than state or federal prisons or local jails," Brinkley-Rubinstein said. "ICE detention facilities and ...

The state of Florida has opened a migrant detention center in the Everglades. Its official name is Alligator Alcatraz, a ...

The "Alligator Alcatraz" detention center is expected to cost $450 million a year, a U.S. official told The Associated Press. Snopes archives' contributed to this report. Sources ...

Alligator Alcatraz is located in a remote region in South Florida, which includes the Florida Everglades and Big Cypress Wildlife Management Area. There are few roads and even fewer towns.

President Donald Trump visits "Alligator Alcatraz," a new detention facility in the Florida Everglades surrounded by alligators and pythons, set to house up to 5,000 migrants.

Key to the marketing ploy underpinning Florida's detention camp in the Everglades is the alligator, portrayed by Republican ...