Without permanent structures, electricity or running water, logistical headaches have emerged at “Alligator Alcatraz.”

Gov. DeSantis said he wants to avoid establishing a new detention facility at Camp Blanding for now to avoid it being partially filled there & at Alligator Alcatraz.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said on Wednesday he wants the detention facility, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” to be at full capacity before moving forward with the plans to turn Camp Blanding into an immigration detention site.

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.

If adopted by the county commission Tuesday, an amended agreement with the federal government would authorize county correctional officers to transport immigration detainees at the request of ICE.

A little-known consulting firm with ties to a prominent Jacksonville business leader landed a $78 million contract earlier this month to provide a raft of critical services at a pop-up immigration detention center in Big Cypress National Preserve,

Prisoners at Florida's newly opened immigrant detention center in the Everglades are suffering in squalid conditions and are cut off from legal access, according to attorneys, detainees, family members, and lawmakers.

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

ICE received additional funding from President Trump's "big, beautiful bill," and Alligator Alcatraz began operating.

I’ve called, I’ve emailed everybody and their grandmother and their grandmother’s sister. Nobody emails you back and nobody calls you back,” said one immigration attorney.

"It's all for politics." Representative Maxwell Frost (D-FL) sits down with Jen Psaki to discuss the Trump administration's immigration raids and the newly opened migrant detention center in Florida dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" due to the dangerous wildlife that surrounds it.

(THE CONVERSATION) 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.