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

Eve Samples, executive director of Friends of the Everglades, hopes the judge rules to temporarily stop "Alligator Alcatraz" from expanding.

A federal judge in Miami has dismissed part of a lawsuit that claimed detainees were denied access to the legal system at the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz.

A federal judge moved the Alligator Alcatraz lawsuit to a new court and dismissed claims over immigration hearings, citing changed circumstances.

A judge appeared skeptical Monday about a lawsuit challenging the temporary detention facility in the Everglades known as "Alligator Alcatraz."

A federal judge will hear arguments Monday over whether detainees at a temporary immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades have been denied their legal rights. In the second of two lawsuits challenging practices at the facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz,

An alligator made a meal out of an invasive Burmese python at Shark Valley in the Florida Everglades, near Alligator Alcatraz, an ICE detention center

Former ‘Alligator Alcatraz' worker describes ‘inhumane' conditions inside Since the Everglades facility opened, NBC6 has been hearing complaints of the conditions from advocates, detainees and ...

Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, who has objected to the facility and asked for access to "monitor" it, said she "welcome (d) the court’s decision to halt construction at Alligator Alcatraz — an overdue and necessary step."

A month into his detention at Alligator Alcatraz, Daniel Ortiz Piñeda faced a stark choice: continue his legal fight for asylum or give it up to hopefully put an end to his extended stay at the makeshift immigration detention camp in the Everglades.