Florida's top emergency official says a lawsuit to stop an immigration detention center known as ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ in the Everglades was filed in the wrong court.

People held at the brand new Florida immigration detention center that officials have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” say worms turn up in the food, toilets don’t flush and floors flood with fecal waste.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration left many local officials in the dark about the immigration detention center that rose from an isolated airstrip in the Everglades.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is pressing the Trump administration to repatriate 14 Mexican nationals being held at Alligator Alcatraz, the the controversial immigration detention center in the Everglades.

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

Dozens of demonstrators demand closure of Alligator Alcatraz 01:56. Several Florida nonprofits, medical professionals, public health experts and families of detainees held at the