It also says the project violates the National Environmental Policy Act, as it kicked off without any environmental review ...

Environmental organizations sought to intervene, citing concerns over the Trump administration's commitment to endangered ...

The lawsuit claims construction of the center violates a federal law requiring analysis of potential environmental harms ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis ’ administration has already signed contracts to pay at least $245 million to set up and run the new ...

A legal battle over the "Alligator Alcatraz" immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades has hit a procedural snag, as a top Florida official ...

Florida’s immigration detention facility located at an isolated Everglades airfield surrounded by mosquito-, python- and alligator-filled swamplands went from a video on X to reality in a matter of ...

Environmental groups are facing hurdles in their lawsuit to stop further construction and detention of additional people at the state-run immigrant detention center in the Everglades. The federal ...

Florida’s top emergency official asked a federal judge on Monday to resist a request by environmentalists to halt an ...

Five Florida state lawmakers who were denied access to a new immigration detention center in the Everglades are suing Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The five Democratic state lawmakers who were denied entrance to inspect the new immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades last week filed a lawsuit in the Florida Supreme Court against ...

Florida officials have invited lawmakers to tour a massive detention center in the Everglades following backlash over blocked access. Democrats say the 90-minute tour doesn’t replace their legal right ...

But the lawsuit said that Florida law affords legislators “broad access” to inspect correctional facilities unannounced so they can “observe the unadulterated conditions of the facility.” ...