A federal judge in Florida ordered late Thursday that some of Alligator Alcatraz be shut down and barred the Sunshine State from bringing in more migrants to the detention facility in a blow to the ...

A federal appeals court on Thursday halted a lower court judge’s order to end operations indefinitely at the "Alligator Alcatraz" immigration detention center built in the Florida Everglades. The ...

A federal judge on Thursday ordered an indefinite halt to new construction at an immigration detention facility that Florida officials have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” and barred any new detainees ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Attorneys fighting for the legal rights of detainees at an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades have their first hearing in court on Thursday since a federal ...

A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked a judge’s order requiring Florida and the federal government to shut down and dismantle a controversial immigration detention facility built in the ...

A group of men posed for a photo with an alligator that they caught on Sunday, Sept. 28, 2025, outside of McDonald’s at 1450 Rocky Creek Road in Macon, Ga. They taped its snout shut and wrapped it ...

MIAMI — A top official at the Florida Department of Emergency Management estimates it will cost $15 million to $20 million to tear down the fencing and other infrastructure at the immigration ...

A federal judge has ordered the closure and dismantlement of the South Florida Detention Facility known as Alligator Alcatraz, the federal migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades that ...

The Martin County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) has deployed 11 deputies to Florida's controversial Alligator Alcatraz immigration ...

For the hundreds of men who were detained at Alligator Alcatraz, entering the gates of the makeshift migrant detention center in the Everglades meant exiting the labyrinthine but familiar federal ...