Florida state officials left many at the county level in the dark about the shadowy immigration detention center in the Everglades, according to the emails.

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The camp was first announced by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, who is DeSantis’ former chief of staff and was manager of the governor’s unsuccessful 2024 presidential campaign, late last month.

Since Alligator Alcatraz, a detention facility nestled deep in the Florida Everglades, was proposed in June, it has sparked a lot of reactions across the nation. President Donald Trump toured the

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.

The remote facility in the Florida Everglades is expected to cost the state about $450 million annually to operate.

In the depths of the Florida Everglades, a place teeming with mosquitoes, swamps, and predatory reptiles, the U.S. government has endorsed what many human rights activists now call the Alligator Alcatraz—a sprawling 39-square-mile detention facility for immigrants surrounded not only by steel fences,

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.

Trump administration officials want "Alligator Alcatraz" to be a blueprint, but Democrats are pushing back on expansion

Alligator Alcatraz’ is visual policy aimed to stage terror as a message while making Donald Trump’s authoritarian and fascist politics a material reality.