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 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."

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.

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

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.