The location of Trump's immigrant detention center has a painful history of incarceration, abuse, and private interests.

Ron DeSantis, formerly Donald Trump’s Republican rival, said that the cadence for removal flights would be ‘increasing’.

The Trump administration’s push to quickly ramp up immigration arrests has led to overcrowding at ICE facilities and allegations of inhumane and unsanitary conditions.

Key to the marketing ploy underpinning Florida's detention camp in the Everglades is the alligator, portrayed by Republican leaders as a blood-thirsty prison guard ready to attack anyone who escapes.

But data and news reports about the first month’s arrivals show the majority of Alligator Alcatraz’s detainees do not have U.S. criminal convictions.  President Donald Trump, federal officials and Florida Republicans touted the remote Everglades immigration detention centers — dubbed Alligator Alcatraz — as a place to detain people deemed the "worst of the worst.

Editor's note: The little-used airstrip in the Everglades that the state is using to build a detention center for immigrants, dubbed " Alligator Alcatraz ," is part of a storied history involving Palm Beach County at one point.

“Alligator Alcatraz” is the insulting name Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has given the inhumane detention center he has erected in the Everglades to house immigrants rounded up in the Trump administration’s draconian assault on allegedly undocumented people living in the United States.

Immigrants stopped by state law enforcement or held at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ can get state funding to self-deport under new initiative

As Trump, Desantis move forward to build, Alligator Alcatraz, an immigration detention center in the heart of the Everglades, here's what you need to know.

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem after touring a migrant detention center, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," at the site of the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, Ochopee, Florida ...

I’m outraged by the Butler County Sheriff’s Office’s recent posting of an AI-generated image featuring alligators in a pond outside their headquarters — an image eerily reminiscent of historically racist “alligator bait” propaganda.