Experts are concerned about the dangerous conditions at Alligator Alcatraz, the immigrant detention center that opened Tuesday in the Florida Everglades. Hurricanes, flooding, and mosquitoes pose a more likely threat to people incarcerated there than the alligators and snakes that President Donald Trump has "joked" about.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis claims new migrant detention center has “zero” environmental impact. That’s not possible, experts say.

How did a facility constructed in only eight days come to become the center of a national controversy over human dignity? The Alligator Alcatraz detention camp, deep in the Florida Everglades, has ignited outrage and demands for answers after politicians toured what they called “vile,

A federal judge on Tuesday nixed the operative part of a temporary restraining order he imposed on the Trump administration, accepting the government’s assurances that money at issue in a lawsuit isn’t at risk of being used to pay for the new “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention facility.

Videos from the opening tour of Donald Trump's new detention centre in Florida reveal flooding near electrics, raising concerns that the eight-day construction compromised its readiness, before detainees arrived at the facility.

Blazing lights, sewage: 55 years later, Alligator Alcatraz steamrolls Marjory Stoneman Douglas-led effort to keep the Everglades wild

READ MORE: Alligator Alcatraz opened Tuesday ready for a hurricane — but ... conditioned or not — are not sufficient protection for detainees from the natural risks in the Everglades. “Building a bare-bones tented detention center on hot tarmac ...

President Trump on Tuesday visited the official opening of an immigration detention camp in Florida’s Everglades that is surrounded by alligators, aptly dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz." It is set to become the largest migrant detention facility in the U.

The sales pitch for erecting a detention center for detainees in the heart of the Everglades is the swamp and creatures surrounding it. The wildlife has become both a presidential