The location of Trump's immigrant detention center has a painful history of incarceration, abuse, and private interests.

Florida’s top emergency official asked a federal judge on Monday to resist a request by environmentalists to halt an immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” in the middle of the Florida Everglades because their lawsuit was filed in the wrong jurisdiction.

At a press briefing on Wednesday, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) expressed shock that Democrats defend illegal immigrants sent to Alligator Alcatraz.

The state last week began operating what has been dubbed " Alligator Alcatraz " at a remote site surrounded by the Everglades and the Big Cypress National Preserve, as Gov. Ron DeSantis and other officials try to help President Donald Trump's mass deportation of undocumented immigrants.

President Donald Trump campaigned on a tough immigration policy and rode that wave all the way to a second term in the White House. He backed up his talk with action by stepping up deportations utilizing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in controversial ways.

Detainees at Alligator Alcatraz described limited access to water and fresh air, saying they received only one meal a day and that the lights are on 24/7.

The first reports from the Florida facility have emerged, with migrants detailing disgusting conditions including no showers, toilets that don't flush - and lots of bugs

Trump announced on Tuesday that his administration is already working on reopening the original Alcatraz, in California. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

President Trump will tour Alligator Alcatraz July 1. The facility is intended to become a 5,000-bed immigrant detention center. Work to turn the Miami-Dade Collier Training and Transportation ...

The Trump administration says each bed at the detention camp is expected to cost $245 a day — roughly the price of one night this week at the Intercontinental Miami hotel.