Alligator Alcatraz Explained: Florida’s Most Controversial Immigration Detention Center
Alligator Alcatraz is Florida’s Everglades Detention Facility, an immigration detention camp constructed in eight days in June 2025 on a former airstrip inside Big Cypress National Preserve in Ochopee, Collier County. Built under emergency powers by Gov. Ron DeSantis, the facility can hold up to 3,000 detainees and has triggered federal lawsuits, a court injunction, […]










