The state of Florida has opened a migrant detention center in the Everglades. Its official name is Alligator Alcatraz, a reference to the former maximum security federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay.

In Florida, price of immigration "emergency" includes $12,000 plane tickets to Martha's Vineyard and $400-a-night beds at Alligator Alcatraz.

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The remote facility in the Florida Everglades is expected to cost the state about $450 million annually to operate.

Cuban reggaeton artist Leamsy La Figura, arrested last week in Miami-Dade on assault charges, was transferred to South Florida's new immigration detention facility known as Alligator Alcatraz in the Everglades, the singer confirmed in a phone call.

Alligator Alcatraz isn't just stupid and cruel. It echoes Florida's racist past. | Opinion For starters, making jokes about feeding people to alligators was what racists used to do during the Jim ...