The big picture: There have been reports of negligence, inhumane treatment and limited access to legal counsel in the U.S. immigration detention system for years, but the Trump administration has embraced once-fringe tactics, setting off alarms for immigration rights advocates.

Hundreds of immigrants with no criminal charges in the United States are being held at Alligator Alcatraz, a detention facility state and federal officials have characterized as a place where

Florida Democrat Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said her inspection of the "Alligator Alcatraz" facility showed a disgusting toilet and shower situation, no privacy, and bad food for the detainees, while the guards were snacking on "roast chicken and big sausages.

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem tells Meet the Press that she will show evidence of what she describes as high-level conditions within the new immigration detention facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” after Florida Democrats toured the facilities and called the conditions “vile.

Alligator Alcatraz has triggered pride in the MAGA world, and fury in an unlikely bipartisan mix of South Floridians. Decades ago, bipartisan outrage erupted in a fight over a jetport on the same

Florida Sen. Blaise Ingoglia wore a University of Florida golf polo with an alligator icon to a guided tour of Alligator Alcatraz on Saturday in Collier County.

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It is unbecoming of public officials and corrosive of the common good to speak of the deterrence value of ‘alligators and pythons' at the Collier-Dade facility.'