Amid allegations of deplorable conditions in Alligator Alcatraz, mayor of Miami-Dade County asks the feds and state government for access to the site.

Mayor Daniella Levine Cava wrote to Attorney General James Uthmeier asking for weekly site reports, remote video monitoring access and scheduled site visits by an oversight team.

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

Concerns about conditions for detainees were heightened when one was rushed out of the detention center Monday in an ambulance.

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

Some stats about Alligator Alcatraz, Florida’s ICE detention center, as of Tuesday, July 1, 2025, or “opening day”: maximum capacity of detainees: 3,000

Below are photos of Alligator Alcatraz, including a tour of what it looks like, protesters who oppose the ICE detention center in the Florida Everglades, and what the airport site could have been.

A criminal illegal alien from Cuba is whining that the conditions inside "Alligator Alcatraz," an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in the Florida Everglades, aren't up to his standards.