Upon emerging from sprawling facility, Democrats and Republicans provided vastly different accounts of what they saw within

Democratic lawmakers describe the harsh conditions inside Alligator Alcatraz after they accepted an invite to tour the controversial facility on Saturday.

Columnist Steve Bousquet reports on the DeSantis administration’s elaborate efforts to restrict public access to the hastily built immigration detention camp known as “Alligator

Fantasizing about Florida alligators eating immigrants is old racism repackaged in a new Alligator Alcatraz detention camp.

A federal court ruled that California's ban on private prisons and detention centers like San Diego's Otay Mesa Detention Center, owned and operated by private company CoreCivic, and where migrant children were detained separately from their parents, is unconstitutional. (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

The president and local authorities boast that alligators and pythons will prevent escapes. Five people have died this year in the state while detained by ICE. The president and local authorities boast that alligators and pythons will prevent escapes.

President Donald Trump is expected to visit Alligator Alcatraz, a temporary immigrant detention center erected near the Florida Everglades.

Alligator Alcatraz isn't just stupid and cruel. It echoes Florida's racist past. | Opinion For starters, making jokes about feeding people to alligators was what racists used to do during the Jim ...