Andry Hernandez Romero, a makeup artist seeking asylum in the U.S., vanished after being deported under a wartime deportation ...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has announced a plan to build an immigrant detention center in the heart of the Everglades. Native Americans are furious at the desecration of their ancestral lands.

Florida and federal officials announced the state will build a new immigration detention facility dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" in the Everglades, and because the facility will be partly funded by the ...

However, the big story in local politics this week was the stunning victory of Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic mayoral ...

Republicans in Florida, backing President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, have begun plans for construction on a new ...

Ron DeSantis said Wednesday that the temporary detention center being constructed at an isolated Everglades airfield will ...

“Alligator Alcatraz” is catchy branding but a misnomer. Unlike the former maximum-security prison on Alcatraz Island in San ...

The state says the site will help relieve overcrowded county jails, but environmental advocates and tribal leaders are pushing back.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is getting pushback from environmentalists who say they were "blindsided" by his proposal to build a temporary migrant detention center in the heart of the ...

News and The News-Press have a reporter and photographer on site today to talk to protesters and follow the progress of the prison.

Florida’s recently appointed attorney general, James Uthmeier, announced that he had a pretty snazzy idea: Build the state’s ...