The location of Trump's immigrant detention center has a painful history of incarceration, abuse, and private interests.

Critics have condemned the facility as a cruel and inhumane threat to the ecologically sensitive wetlands, while Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state officials have defended it as part of the state's aggressive push to support President Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration.

Alcatraz was first used as a jail during the American Civil War. It later became a federal penitentiary in 1934, closing less than 30 years later.

The state last week began operating what has been dubbed " Alligator Alcatraz " at a remote site surrounded by the Everglades and the Big Cypress National Preserve, as Gov. Ron DeSantis and other officials try to help President Donald Trump's mass deportation of undocumented immigrants.

Trump administration officials want "Alligator Alcatraz" to be a blueprint, but Democrats are pushing back on expansion.

President Donald Trump campaigned on a tough immigration policy and rode that wave all the way to a second term in the White House. He backed up his talk with action by stepping up deportations utilizing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in controversial ways.

Trump announced on Tuesday that his administration is already working on reopening the original Alcatraz, in California. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

President Trump will tour Alligator Alcatraz July 1. The facility is intended to become a 5,000-bed immigrant detention center. Work to turn the Miami-Dade Collier Training and Transportation ...

Spokespersons for governors in South Carolina, Mississippi and Texas have told NewsNation they are ready to assist in President Donald Trump’s expanding immigration enforcement plans, though they did not confirm whether the administration has contacted them about constructing migrant centers.

Retired ICE special agent Victor Avila weighs in on the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration crackdown during an appearance on ‘Fox & Friends Weekend.’