A local activist group is voicing its concerns about plans for an immigrant detention center at Camp Blanding in Clay County on Saturday.

DeSantis said he's considering standing up a facility at a Florida National Guard training center known as Camp Blanding, about 30 miles southwest of Jacksonville.

Newsweek spoke with the attorney of a detainee and the friend of another. Both described harrowing conditions at the remote facility.

ICE data from June 2025 showed 72% of people detained in the agency's facilities had no criminal convictions, although 24.7% ...

The group has received reports this week that detainees from the island have been sent to the Florida facility and allege ...

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

Gov. Ron DeSantis defended Friday the state agency that constructed the Alligator Alcatraz migrant detention center without fully notifying local officials.

Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a Marco Island event that there won’t be adverse impacts to the Everglades. He’s also not concerned ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration left many local officials in the dark about the immigration detention center that ...

But data and news reports about the first month’s arrivals show the majority of Alligator Alcatraz’s detainees do not have U.S. criminal convictions.  President Donald Trump, federal officials and ...