“Alligator Alcatraz” lies about 40 miles west of Miami International Airport and halfway to Naples. Over the past week, the ...

Collier could have been home to the Everglades Jetport, the world's largest airport of the future, until environmentalists ...

Deep in the marshy wetlands of the Florida Everglades – less than 50 miles west of President Donald Trump’s Doral resort in ...

President Donald Trump visits Alligator Alcatraz detention facility. Where is Ochopee located? What to know about the new ...

President Trump toured a new immigration detention center in South Florida that state officials are calling "Alligator ...

The detention immigration facility is located in an idle airstrip in the Everglades that the DeSantis administration recently ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has previously said there would be no impacts to vegetation and there would be no paving or ...

Some stats about Alligator Alcatraz, Florida’s ICE detention center, as of Tuesday, July 1, 2025, or “opening day”: maximum capacity of detainees: 3,000 Alligator Alcatraz staff members: 1,000 ...

President Trump is expected to take a walking tour of a temporary migrant detention center being referred to as Alligator ...

President Trump visited Florida on Tuesday to tour what's been dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," a controversial migrant detention center in the Everglades that officials say is poised to start filling ...

History of the Big Cypress land where "Alligator Alcatraz" is being built. According to the Florida National Parks Association, humans have inhabited the Big Cypress Swamp – the wetlands that ...

A July 2024 report in the AZ Animals blog sums up the largest alligator population by state: Louisiana: 2 million alligators; Florida: 1.3 million alligators; Texas: 400,000 to 500,000 alligators ...