A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction on Thursday blocking Florida from further expanding the "Alligator Alcatraz" immigration detention center.

The answer could play a key role in a legal battle over the facility’s fate. And it has bigger implications, too.

A detainee with an intellectual disability claims he was deported from the controversial Alligator Alcatraz detention facility after signing what he thought was a form for a blanket.

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A group of congressional Democrats is pushing officials at the DHS for more information about the use of the immigration detention facility dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz."

While Alligator Alcatraz was promoted as a place where migrants with heinous criminal histories would be detained and quickly deported, records show it was largely used during its first month in

Orlando Congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost delivered sharp criticism of the site, describing it as "inhumane" and calling for it to be shut down.

A hiker has been hospitalized after an alligator attacked and bit her on a Florida hiking trail, authorities say. The woman, who has not been identified, was hiking on the Bird Rookery Swamp Trail in Collier County, between Naples and Fort Myers, when the incident took place on Sunday, August 17.