One of two federally-recognized tribes in Florida wants to join a lawsuit to stop Alligator Alcatraz from operating in the Everglades.

Alligator Alcatraz, a migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades, is surrounded by swamps infested with dangerous alligators and pythons.

Investigates is learning more about the private company the state is paying millions to run Alligator Alcatraz.

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.

Emails show that while southwest Florida officials were still chasing rumors about the sprawling “Alligator Alcatraz” facility, state agents were already on-site, rushing vendors through the gates to

It seems that the DeSantis administration just pulled more than a dozen contracts tied to the Everglades Immigration Detention facility from a public database of state contracts. These contracts total more than $200 million in taxpayer spending, and they are public records.

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Pam Bondi's visit comes as she faces intense pressure from Trump's MAGA base to release the Epstein files she claimed to have in February