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

As thunder boomed on an ominous Sunday evening just outside of Alligator Alcatraz, over 200 people — most of them reverends, rabbis, pastors and people of assorted faiths — chanted in unison, “Shut it down” and “This is a preserve,

A federal judge tossed out part of a lawsuit brought by detainees at the "Alligator Alcatraz" detention center in the Florida Everglades, handing a partial victory to the Trump administration.

"Putting people in tents in the middle of the Everglades is a great tool to make them give up their cases," said one immigration attorney

A South Florida judge dismissed some of the immigrant advocacy groups claims, while also shuffling the litigation to another district.

A federal judge handed down a split decision Aug. 18 in a lawsuit brought by detainees at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz.”

Nebraska’s version of the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention center appears to be headed for the southwestern part of the state, Red Willow County. President Donald Trump’s administration is set to build or create a major center to hold migrants in McCook,

Although a federal judge in Miami ordered their case be moved to another Florida district, the ACLU and other plaintiffs suing the controversial migrant detention facility over access to attorneys insist they'll win the litigation - and that they have already been handed "an important victory.