The camp was first announced by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, who is DeSantis’ former chief of staff and was manager of the governor’s unsuccessful 2024 presidential campaign, late last month.

Florida’s elected officials should learn from the original facility that inspired the state’s newest immigrant detention center's name, and change course before it’s too late.

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.

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

When you make merch out of suffering — like the GOP is doing with Alligator Alcatraz — it makes it easier to get away with inhumanity.