As Florida enters peak hurricane season, questions persist about the safety of the detainees as well as staff housed at Alligator Alcatraz, the tent city quickly erected to hold migrants in the mid… ...

Workers install a sign reading "Alligator Alcatraz" at the entrance to a new migrant detention facility at Dade-Collier Training and Transition facility, July 3, 2025, in Ochopee, Fla.

At ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ the Biggest Risk Isn’t Alligators The area around the immigrant detention center, deep in the Everglades, is threatened by a number of environmental hazards like ...

One month after President Donald Trump toured Alligator Alcatraz and the first inmates arrived, WLRN has compiled a timetable of events and stories leading up to the facility's construction and ...

Alligator Alcatraz and hurricanes: Here’s what would put the site at particular risk Alligator Alcatraz consists of temporary structures housing migrants on an airport runway in the Everglades.