Florida is expected to wind down its “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention facility sometime this summer, according to a source familiar with the planning. Vendors at the site were told Tuesday that ...

Alligator Alcatraz, the controversial detention center constructed in 2025 in the Florida Everglades, could be on the verge of closing. Operating costs for the facility have escalated, with Florida ...

Officials will aim to move detainees out of the immigration detention center "Alligator Alcatraz" by June, a source told NBC6, as discussions have arisen about shutting down the state-run facility. A ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said Wednesday that the state’s immigration detention facility, known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” will soon close. “When we opened it in the summer of 2025, it was always ...

Florida will soon close Alligator Alcatraz, a highly publicized immigration detention center that opened in the Everglades less than a year ago, according to multiple news reports citing unidentified ...

The controversial "Alligator Alcatraz" camp for detained migrants in Florida is expected to close. White House correspondent Liz Landers reports on the Trump administration's immigration policies amid ...

WPBF 25 NEWS STARTS WITH BREAKING NEWS. BREAKING NEWS FIRST AT TEN WHAT WPBF 25 NEWS HAS BEEN TELLING YOU SINCE LAST WEEK. NOW CONFIRMED TONIGHT, THE STATE OF FLORIDA WILL CLOSE. ALLIGATOR. ALCATRAZ ...

Companies hired by the State to operate the ICE detention center in the Everglades — also known as “Alligator Alcatraz” — received notification on Tuesday that the facility would shut down. A Florida ...

Jim DeFede joined CBS4 News in January 2006 and serves as an investigative reporter for the station, as well as host of its Sunday morning public affairs program "Facing South Florida." Companies ...

Loved ones of people locked up in Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” have concerns as the detention center appears close to closing. Families with loved ones still being held at Florida's controversial ...

Florida is preparing to shut down the controversial immigrant detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz" in less than a month. As the state awaits federal reimbursement for the project, one ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis rolled out the state-run immigrant detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” last July with all the spectacle of a presidential campaign stop. But less than a year after its ...