Trump administration officials want "Alligator Alcatraz" to be a blueprint, but Democrats are pushing back on expansion.

Deep in the marshy wetlands of the Florida Everglades – less than 50 miles west of President Donald Trump’s Doral resort in Miami – sits the latest battleground in his administration’s immigration enforcement efforts: A detention facility dubbed,

The state’s emergency rules allow Gov. Ron DeSantis to suspend state laws and a competitive bidding process to award millions of dollars from an account he alone controls.

Florida's attorney general says the migrant detention facility is on track to open in early July, at a little-used airfield in the Everglades. Environmental activists hope they can stop the project.

Jim Beever spent much of his career reviewing large developments in the Collier County area, which is where the detention center is being built.

The Trump administration is taking steps toward reopening Alcatraz to house detained immigrants and criminals. The notorious maximum-security prison in the San Francisco Bay was shuttered in 1963 due

Pam Bondi said the island prison is a "fantastic" facility because "no one has been known to escape from Alcatraz and survive”

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said the detention site is expected to open in July in the Everglades. Here's what else we know.

ICE detention standards are difficult to enforce because they aren’t written into law. Rather than follow a uniform standard, detention centers operate under a patchwork of different standards.

But data and news reports about the first month’s arrivals show the majority of Alligator Alcatraz’s detainees do not have U.S. criminal convictions.  President Donald Trump, federal officials and Florida Republicans touted the remote Everglades immigration detention centers — dubbed Alligator Alcatraz — as a place to detain people deemed the "worst of the worst.