Vulnerable species — and the impact of the facility on their habitat and well-being — are at the core of a legal fight.

Activists and outdoorspeople insist the human, pollutive impact of the detention center imperils landscape and wildlife, not the other way around.

FILE - Work progresses on a new migrant detention facility dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," at Dade-Collier Training and Transition facility in the Florida Everglades, on July 4, 2025, in Ochopee, Fla.

MIAMI — Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Friday afternoon that the state has appealed a federal court ruling that would have severely limited operations at the state's immigrant ...