The temporary immigrant detention facility in Florida known as "Alligator Alcatraz" (a play on the infamous former federal prison Alcatraz), which U.S. President Donald Trump promoted as a symbol of ...

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Florida’s governor is seeking to downplay the DHS’ findings about the treatment of immigrant detainees at his state’s now-shuttered facility.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office found Alligator Alcatraz cost almost three times higher than standard ICE detention centers.

Florida's controversial "Alligator Alcatraz" immigration detention centre, a symbol of US President Donald Trump's deportation drive, has closed after operating for less than a year, officials said on ...

The US has emptied the immigration detention camp in the Florida Everglades known as Alligator Alcatraz after the state spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the high-profile facility to support ...

President Donald Trump is expected to visit Southwest Florida Oct. 23, 2026. His last visit to the area was July 1, 2025, at Alligator Alcatraz.

“It served its purpose for the time,” DeSantis said at a press conference. Alligator Alcatraz was hastily erected nearly a year ago, and has been described by many as a concentration camp. The ...

Immigrants at the Florida detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz were kept in “small metal enclosures” for up to nearly two hours in what the Department of Homeland Security’s internal watchdog ...

Alligator Alcatraz is reportedly on the brink of shutting down for good nearly a year after the facility opened.

Detainees at Alligator Alcatraz lived in cramped metal cages, drank dirty water, showered in bug-infested bathrooms and were ...