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Judge to weigh detainees’ legal rights at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ in Florida Everglades

A federal judge is considering whether detainees have been denied their legal rights at a temporary immigrant detention ...

Gator devours massive python in Florida Everglades, near Alligator Alcatraz

An alligator made a meal out of an invasive Burmese python at Shark Valley in the Florida Everglades, near Alligator Alcatraz ...

‘Shut it down.' Every Sunday, they come to pray outside Alligator Alcatraz

As thunder boomed on an ominous Sunday evening just outside of Alligator Alcatraz, over 200 people - most of them reverends, ...

Environmental concerns could halt construction at Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration jail

Gov. Ron DeSantis has said the location in the rugged and remote Everglades was meant as a deterrent against escape, much ...

Florida to open ‘Deportation Depot’ at shuttered prison weeks after launching ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ facility

Florida's DeSantis unveils new immigration detention center dubbed 'Deportation Depot' to expand deportations.

'Father Frank' to say Mass outside Alligator Alcatraz, protesting immigration crackdown

The Mass will mark the Rev. Frank O'Loughlin's 60th year as a priest, all of them spent serving farmworkers and immigrants ...

Families, advocates allege inhumane conditions at 'Alligator Alcatraz'

Detained in the temporary detention center known as " Alligator Alcatraz ," he spent his time confined in a chain-link cage ...