The Latest Breaking News from Everglades

President Donald Trump is expected to attend on Tuesday the opening of a temporary migrant detention facility in Florida’s Everglades, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”

As Florida officials rush to open Alligator Alcatraz to detain migrants in the Everglades, the state's Republican Party premiered a line of branded merchandise.

Environmental groups, immigration advocates and Native Americans decry idea to set up the outdoor detention camp

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is racing ahead with construction of a makeshift immigration detention facility at an airstrip in the Everglades over the opposition of Native American leaders who consider the area their sacred ancestral homelands

James Uthmeier sneers that liberal protesters will not be able to picket new facility because of its situation deep in the Everglades: ‘Good luck finding it’

...that is worse than prisons for mass murderers

An immigration detention facility located at an isolated Everglades airfield surrounded by mosquito-, python- and alligator-filled swamplands is just days away from being operational

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the Trump administration will fund an initiative by the Florida government to set up an immigration detention camp in the Everglades

Facility under construction on former airfield and will cost $450m per year to run