The answer could play a key role in a legal battle over the facility’s fate. And it has bigger implications, too.

Democratic lawmakers are seeking more information from the Department of Homeland Security about the Trump administration's ...

A group of congressional Democrats is pushing officials at the DHS for more information about the use of the immigration ...

A federal judge tossed out part of a lawsuit brought by detainees at the "Alligator Alcatraz" detention center in the Florida ...

A federal judge in Miami has dismissed part of a lawsuit that claimed detainees were denied access to the legal system at the ...

South Florida U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Oregon U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley have written a letter calling on the heads ...

On Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost held a press conference outside the Everglades detention center in Florida ...

Putting people in tents in the middle of the Everglades is a great tool to make them give up their cases,” said one ...

A federal judge moved the Alligator Alcatraz lawsuit to a new court and dismissed claims over immigration hearings, citing ...

A state-run detention facility for migrants has opened in the Florida Everglades. Alligator Alcatraz — that is the official name — was assembled in eight days and opened on July 1. President Donald ...

Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, who has objected to the facility and asked for access to "monitor" it, said she ...

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