Eve Samples, executive director of Friends of the Everglades, hopes the judge rules to temporarily stop "Alligator Alcatraz" from expanding.

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

South Florida U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Oregon U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley have written a letter calling on the heads of the Department of Homeland Security, ICE, and FEMA to provide detailed ...

A Central American nonprofit center in Florida reports one of its client family members -- despite having an active asylum claim and no criminal record -- was recently detained on his way to work and ...

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

Natural disasters have long posed singular risks for people in the United States without permanent legal status. But with the ...

Federal judges are weighing the rights of detainees and environmental concerns at Alligator Alcatraz. The rulings could decide both the future of the Everglades facility and the people held inside.

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

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

As well as that, environmental activists are concerned that Alligator Alcatraz, which is close to marshlands, are a crucial source of freshwater and drinking water for South Florida residents.

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

A federal judge in Miami issued a split decision in a lawsuit over the legal rights of detainees at the detention center in the Florida Everglades.