Experts are concerned about the dangerous conditions at Alligator Alcatraz, the immigrant detention center that opened Tuesday in the Florida Everglades. Hurricanes, flooding, and mosquitoes pose a more likely threat to people incarcerated there than the alligators and snakes that President Donald Trump has "joked" about.

How did a facility constructed in only eight days come to become the center of a national controversy over human dignity? The Alligator Alcatraz detention camp, deep in the Florida Everglades, has ignited outrage and demands for answers after politicians toured what they called “vile,

Potential effects include increased light and air pollution, habitat degradation for endangered species such as the Florida panther, and waste spills.

Alligator Alcatraz, a migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades, is surrounded by swamps infested with dangerous alligators and pythons.

Videos from the opening tour of Donald Trump's new detention centre in Florida reveal flooding near electrics, raising concerns that the eight-day construction compromised its readiness, before detainees arrived at the facility.

A federal judge on Tuesday nixed the operative part of a temporary restraining order he imposed on the Trump administration, accepting the government’s assurances that money at issue in a lawsuit isn’t at risk of being used to pay for the new “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention facility.

The camp appears designed to inflict suffering on detainees and to allow Florida politicians to exploit migrant pain for political gain.

The county is looking at modifying another agreement related to housing undocumented immigrants at its correctional facility

Five legislators who were denied access to the Alligator Alcatraz immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades last week when they attempted an unannounced inspection have filed a lawsuit

Fantasizing about Florida alligators eating immigrants is old racism repackaged in a new Alligator Alcatraz detention camp.