That same day, Attorney General PAM BONDI was at the original Alcatraz in San Francisco, as officials weigh reopening the facility to house federal offenders or undocumented immigrants who are facing deportation, reported Jennifer Yachnin of POLITICO’s E+E News.

Democratic members of the Florida congressional delegation want to stop federal money from flowing to what they described as the “lawless, inhumane immigration detention site” in the

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.

Hecox v. Little and West Virginia v. B.P.J are the cases in question.

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) and other state Democratic congressional lawmakers recently introduced the No Cages in the Everglades Act, which aims

The concept, a product of the go-go 1960's, was killed by an unlikely environmental pioneer, President Richard Nixon

The "Alligator Alcatraz" detention center is expected to cost $450 million a year, a U.S. official told The Associated Press. Snopes archives' contributed to this report. Sources