The Miccosukee Tribe of Florida cites "significant concerns about environmental degradation" and threats to "traditional and religious ceremonies."

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.

Democratic lawmakers are condemning Florida’s new Everglades immigration detention center after making a state-arranged visit.

One article describes conditions with detainees reporting issues like plumbing failures, temperature extremes and large insects inside the facility. Another highlights Gov. Ron DeSantis' use of emergency powers to expedite construction, drawing parallels to previous emergency responses.

The U.S. arm of Montreal-based security giant GardaWorld — which holds a federal contract to secure the controversial migrant detention site dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” — is hiring armed guards for a facility in the same Florida community.

Immigration arrests are sharply up around the country, and Florida is sending some to Alligator Alcatraz. But did Obama deport more people than Trump?

Democrats also focused on what they said they learned at the facility: They said officials clarified repeatedly that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is “calling the shots” at the detention center — an open question after the agency’s acting deputy associate director of enforcement and removal operations downplayed federal involvement.

Alligator Alcatraz is located in a remote region in South Florida, which includes the Florida Everglades and Big Cypress Wildlife Management Area. There are few roads and even fewer towns.

Florida Democrat Rep. Angie Nixon visited “Alligator Alcatraz,” a new detention center in Florida built to house migrants, during a tour closed to the media. The congresswoman detailed to CNN’s Victor Blackwell what she saw at the caged facility,