People held at the brand new Florida immigration detention center that officials have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” say worms turn up in the food, toilets don’t flush and floors flood with fecal waste.

Dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” the massive tent detention complex built deep in the Florida Everglades can hold 3,000 and could be the template for other facilities in other states.

Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-Fla.) was among a group of lawmakers given a tour of the controversial immigration detention center built by the state of Florida.

The Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida is seeking to join a federal lawsuit aimed at halting the construction and operation of a new immigration detention facility in the Everglades, which tribal members consider their sacred ancestral homelands.

At least five Republican governors are reportedly considering building large-scale immigration detention centers modeled after Florida’s

A Florida lawmaker has described appalling conditions at the Trump administration’s new "Alligator Alcatraz,” claiming detainees at the immigration detention center are "packed into cages" and offered measly meals unfit for "fully grown men."

Democratic lawmakers are condemning Florida’s new Everglades immigration detention center after making a state-arranged visit.

Numerous accounts of lack of showers, overflowing toilets, and inability to meet with lawyers are emerging from the detention center in the middle of the Everglades.