The meeting will address a proposal for corrections officers to transport ICE detainees from the Orange County Jail to immigration facilities, including “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Everglades. Elected officials and immigration rights advocates are planning to speak about Orange County’s involvement with ICE.

In the rush to criminalize brown bodies and politicize fear, we are witnessing racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow, Annette Taddeo argues. | Opinion

The creation and celebration of "Alligator Alcatraz," the hastily built detention center in the heart of mosquito-infested Florida swampland, marks a new dehumanizing low in the Trump administration's indiscriminate and cruel posture toward immigrants.

Two weeks after it opened, a temporary migrant detention center in the Everglades is facing expensive logistical challenges: portable toilets routinely back up, sewage needs to be collected and trucked out,

Kona Ice, restaurants explain, apologize after being seen at Alligator Alcatraz, the new immigration processing center in the Everglades.

The state of Florida has opened a migrant detention center in the Everglades. Its official name is Alligator Alcatraz, a reference to the former maximum security federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay.

Dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” the massive tent detention complex built deep in the Florida Everglades can hold 3,000 and could be the template for other facilities in other states.